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A ______________ involves harmonizing block-chord riffs, was created by the entire band, and was not written down |
Head Arrangement |
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Benny Goodman was a |
Clarinetist |
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Which band replaced Duke Ellington's at the Cotton Club, employed a young Dizzy Gillespie, and performed for almost two decades |
Cab Calloway's band |
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Columbia, Victor, and Decca were the three most important ... |
record companies |
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Fletcher Henderson's arrangement relied heavily on |
simple riffs as well as call-and-reponse patters |
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Jimmie Lunceford's nickname was |
Professor |
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Who was a nonmusician who promoted Jazz, was born into a wealthy New York family, and championed black musicians in the recording studio |
John Hammond |
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Swing bands featured sections of trumpets, saxophones, and |
trombones |
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Swing music appealed most dramatically to what demographic group? |
Teenagers |
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Which dance featured a steady four beats, was an improvised African-style dance, and contained "breakaways"? |
The Lindy Hop |
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The Savoy Ballroom was |
luxurious and well-adorned |
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The invention of _______ helped the record industry to recover in the mid-1930's |
the jukebox |
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The rhythm section of the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet excluded which instrument? |
Bass |
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The swing era took place during which two important historical events? |
The Great Depression and World War II |
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Which bandleader's appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1938 help to cement the respectability of Jazz in America? |
Benny Goodman |
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Which instrument did Glenn Miller play? |
Trombone |
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Which of the following changes occurred in the rhythm section during the 1930's |
The string bass replaced the tuba and the guitar replaced the banjo |
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Which white swing clarinetist and bandleader, who spent as much of his early career as he could in Harlem, once said, "I was actually leading the life of a Negro musician?" |
Artie Shaw |
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____________ big band enlisted in the U.S. Army as a unit in order to entertain the troops overseas |
Glenn Miller's |
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____________ was one of Artie Shaw's biggest hits |
"Begin the Beguine" |
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After a decline in popularity, what sparked a comeback for Duke Ellington and his orchestra? |
An appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 |
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Although born in New Jersey, Count Basie is indelibly associated with |
Kansas City |
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Benny Moten was a ________________ bandleader |
territory |
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Duke Ellington's co-composer and author of "Take the 'A' Train" was |
Billy Strayhorn |
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Count Basie's first hit was an informal twelve-bar blues called |
"One O'clock Jump" |
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Count Basie's saxophone section included |
Lester Young & Herschel Evans |
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Duke Ellington's ... and His Mother Called Him Bill, featured "Blood Count" and "Lotus Blossom," was a tribute album to |
Bill Strayhorn |
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Duke Ellington's compositions included |
"Conga Brava" |
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During the Swing Era, new musical influences cam into jazz from the |
Southwest: Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas |
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(T/F) Head Arrangements were flexible, sometimes expanding to ten minutes in the heat of the performance |
True |
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In addition to being a big-band arranger, Mary Lou Williams was a |
Stride Pianist |
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In addition to being a master of orchestration, ___________ wrote not just for instruments but for specific musicians in his band |
Duke Ellington |
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In her later career, ___________ was a devoted teacher of jazz history, was a leader in the bebop (modern jazz) movement, and became increasingly active as a composer |
Mary Lou Williams |
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Many Kansas City bands featured head arrangements, which were |
collectively composed by members of the band and not written down |
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Pete Johnson was a |
boogie-woogie pianist |
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The Southwest affected music nationally through |
the piano style boogie-woogie |
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Which artist summed up his attitude towards rhythm with the aphorism, "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing?" |
Duke Ellington |
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Which of the following bands began as a territory band in the Southwest? |
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy |
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Who spurred the boogie-woogie revival of the 1930's with his concert "From Spirituals to Swing" that took place in Carnegie Hall? |
John Hammond |
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In the 1930's, Jazz was known as |
Swing |
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Through the Swing Era occurred during ___________, it did not get caught up in the era's deep anxiety |
the Great Depression |
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The famous ballroom in Harlem where social dancing was an intense, communal activity and the swing dance style emerged was called ... |
the Savoy Ballroom |
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Bernie Heardman helped to bridge the racial gap of jazz by |
hiring black arrangers to put together music for his band |
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Star Dust was composed by ______. The form is ___________ |
Artie Shaw, 32 bar popular song |
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Jimmie Lanceford, "The Professor" expected __________ from his bandmembers |
impeccable appearance, right down to their socks |
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The popular band leader who played the trombone and brought swing into the mainstream was |
Glenn Miller |
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A head arrangement is |
a flexible, unwritten arrangement created by the entire band |
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A repetitive melody or melodic figure is called a(n) |
ostinato |
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One example of the Boogie-Woogie is |
"It's All Right, Baby" |
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The club that was well-know for housing Duke Ellington's band in the 1920's was called |
The Cotton Club |
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Bands that worked in a geographic are no more than a day's drive from their headquarters are called |
territory bands |
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Mary Lou Williams was a very talented jazz __________ and arranger |
Pianist |
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Why were women rare in jazz performances? |
A woman on the stage, people reasoned, was not fit for middle-class society |
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"One O'Clock Jump" which contains a Kansas City-style head arrangement was made famous by |
Count Bassie and His Orchestra |
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How as Juan Tizol's trombone different from a normal trombone? |
It contained valves like a trumpet rather than a slide |
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The place that was made famous by Duke Ellington and his orchestra and included Latin and Swing grooves is called |
Conga Brava |
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Ellington's composition partner in his later career who was originally a classical composer was |
Billie Strayhorn |
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Who was nicknamed "Father of the Tenor" |
Coleman Hawkins |
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When the notes of a chord are played successively, one at a time, this is called |
an arpeggio |
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"Body and Soul" includes a great melodic paraphase at the beginning and harmonic improvisation by |
Coleman Hawkins |
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A change came to the way jazz musicians performed for the radio in the 1940's because |
radio producers stopped recording live performances |
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What was Lester Young's style of improvisation? |
He would improvise a melody that fit that overall harmonic framework without dealing with every harmony |
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Jazz was heard in nations outside of the U.S. where it |
was blocked by officials in the Soviet Union, became very popular, and was imitated by those who listened |
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Who toured Moscow in the 1950's and found that he had thousands of fans who referred to his records by catalog numbers? |
Benny Goodman |
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How did racism affect Jazz performances in Europe? |
Often black performers were considered chic and their race made them more popular |
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After World War II, Jazz musicians in Europe were treated as |
heroes |
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Django Reinhardt was known for his performances on |
the guitar |
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The social activist who also performed on a number of instruments while also composing and arranging for Fletcher Henderson, Horrace Henderson, Charlie Johnson, and McKinney's Cotton Pickers was |
Benny Carter |
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Billie Holiday grew up in a |
school for delinquent girls |
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Billie Holiday first recorded |
Benny Goodman |
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Billie Holiday was influenced by singer ________ who was a well-known 1920's blues singer |
Bessie Smith |
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Called an irrepressible spirit of musical joy, the singer used blues for up-tempo scat improvisations. Who is she? |
Ella Fitzgerald |
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Singing that is improved by a vocalist using nonsense syllables is called |
scat singing |
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Dropping bombs in jazz means |
unexpected bass drum explosions |
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Bebop musicians included all of the following Except |
Elliot "Ellie" Carter |
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Bebob was made famous for its |
complex dissonant harmonies |
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Why were black bands after forced to tour and perform live? |
They were not allowed to be on prime-time radio shows and they could not hold a lengthy engagement at a major hotel ballroom because of racial laws |
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Charlie Parker was known as one of the most gifted __________ in Jazz |
Saxophonist |
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Band leaders found it too difficult to include Charlie Parker in their bands because of his |
heroine addiction |
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Dizzy Gillepsie was known for his ____________ playing |
trumpet |
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Gillespie recorded and toured with the most lucrative black band in existence in the late 1930's. The band was |
The Cab Calloway Orchestra |
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Gillespie earned the nickname "Dizzy" because |
he had a fiery temperament and a wicked sense of humor |
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Dizzie Gillespie and Charlie Parker were both hired for ______ band |
Earl Hines' |
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Jazz was a inexpensive was of recording for producers because |
the chord progressions of songs were not copyrighted so jazz musicians could superimpose a new melody of the changes of a copyrighted song and not have to pay the copyright fee |
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Which of the following songs was originally a tribute to Native Americans? |
Ko-Ko |