Chapter 2: New Orleans Flashcards
(41 cards)
Which jazz musician played in Europe?
Sidney Bechet
What three things influenced the New Orleans style?
Brass bands
String ensembles
Collective improvisation
Who is generally recognized as the first important jazz musician?
Buddy Bolden
What instrument did Bolden play?
Cornet
Bolden’s playing was soft/aggressive
aggressive
What was Bolden’s most significant innovation to jazz?
His personal style
Bolden’s most famous song
“Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor.”
What is the song form for Jelly Roll Morton’s “Dead Man Blues?”
12 bar blues
Blues has __ bars
12
A march has __ bars
16
Pop songs have __ bars
32
What year was jazz first recorded?
1917
Where was jazz often played in New Orleans?
Bars, clubs, parades, parks, riverboats
What district of New Orleans gave jazz its funky rhythms and energy?
Storyville
The front line was composed of melody/harmony/rhythm instruments
melody
Examples of front line instruments
trumpet, cornet, trombone, clarinet
Many of the jazz rhythm section instruments came from:
String ensembles
The earliest New Orleans jazz consisted of a _____ playing a melody with a ____ playing a countermelody
cornet; clarinet
The ______ smears
trombone
Collective improvisation texture
polyphonic
During the trio section of a piece, New Orleans bands often switched to a _____ texture
block-chord
What are breaks and stop time?
Where all instruments stop playing to let one instrument solo for a bit
Jazz began to leave New Orleans at the same time as the ______ __________
Great Migration
The first genuinely jazz figure to travel widely was
Freddie Keppard (cornet)
