This trumpet player is known for singing and playing "When the Saints Go Marching In", using a growling-like voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
Improvisation is always used during this section of a Bules chart.
What is the Solo Section?
100
This is the number of measure (bars) in a 12-Bar Blues
What is 12?
100
This is the name of the section that describes the very end of a blues chart, whether the speed is very slow or the section is very short
What is the Closing?
200
The Blues were used as a form of this...
What is Communication?
200
Known as "The Bird", this saxophone player wrote and performed the charts "Confirmation" and "Ornithology"
Who is Charlie Parker?
200
This is the last instrument to solo before the end of the solo section.
What is the Drum Set?
200
There are this many main lines (rows) in a 12-bar blues.
What is 3?
200
One player uses improvisation during this part of a Blues chart.
What is the Solo Section?
300
This type of people used the Blues as a form of communication
What are Slaves?
300
This trumpet player wrote "'Sposin" and "Oleo", and could play trumpet for "miles". Also, you ain't cool unless you...well, you know.
Who is Miles Davis?
300
This instrument is usually the second to last instrument to solo before the end of the solo section.
What is the Bass?
300
Doing the math, there are this many measures per line.
What is 4?
300
This is the part of the song that stays in your head even after the chart is long finished. Maybe it's because you hear it more than once...
What is the Theme?
400
The Blues emphasizes these two beats in a four-beat measure
What are beats 2 and 4?
400
This famous saxophone player was responsible for help taking the Blues in a spiritual direction. I guess he took the Blues on a spiritual "trane", if you catch my drift
Who is John Coltrane?
400
Improvisation started as this form of musical performance...think ways of performig music
What is Vocal?
400
These three numbers (used as roman numerals) are used to complete the 12-bar Blues.
What is I, IV, and V?
400
This is the part of the chart where a familiar part of the tune returns again
What is the Theme Returns?
500
Of the Saxophone, Trumpet, Bassoon, and Piano, this instrument is not really an instrument that would be used to play the Blues
What is the Bassoon?
500
Extra Credit: This blues pianist wrote "Rockin' in Rhythm"
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
This was Louis Armstrong's nickname.
What is Satchmo?
500
The 12-Bar Blues is used for both ensemble playing and for made up solos, also known as this
What is Improvisation?
500
In the introduction, sometimes a soloist will play with the tempo, wavering back and forth between fast and slow. This is called...