Cole Info and Key Words

Question 1

What is the name of the album from which the set works come?

Answer 1

After Midnight.

Question 2

What kind of record was Cole’s album recorded on?

Answer 2

Vinyl LP.

Question 3

How many Tracks are on Cole’s album?

Answer 3

12 tracks.

Question 4

How could you describe Cole’s style?

Answer 4

Early Jazz-oriented.

Question 5

When was Cole’s album released?

Answer 5

1956.

Question 6

What makes up Cole’s Album?

Answer 6

Jazz Standards.

Question 7

What was Cole the first black artist to do?

Answer 7

Host his own radio show.

Question 8

How could Cole’s voice be described?

Answer 8

Smooth and Gentle

Question 9

What was the style of many of his hits?

Answer 9

Pop Ballads

Question 10

When was the King Cole trio formed?

Answer 10

1936

Question 11

What instruments made up the King Cole trio?

Answer 11

Piano, Bass and guitar.

Question 12

What did Cole play in the King Cole trio?

Answer 12

Piano. He also sang.

Question 13

In what period did Cole record most extensively?

Answer 13

From the late 1930s to the early 1960s.

Question 14

What was effective about the King Cole trio’s combination of instruments?

Answer 14

They produced a clear, balanced and intimate texture.

Question 15

How did Cole’s album vary from his earlier work?

Answer 15

By 1956, Cole was using a wider selection of musicians with the trio acting as the foundation of the band.

Question 16

What voice group was Cole?

Answer 16

Baritone.

Question 17

Who influenced Cole’s Jazz ‘language’ and how?

Answer 17

Earl Hines. Particularly he influenced Cole’s use of rhythm.

Question 18

Who influenced both Cole and Earl Hines?

Answer 18

Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson.

Question 19

Meaning: Blues, Bluesy, Blue Note

Answer 19

12-bar blues chord pattern, notes characteristic of the blues scale (b3, b5, b7).

Question 20

Meaning: Break

Answer 20

A change in texture from the rest of the song, solo/instrumental.

Question 21

Meaning: Call and Response

Answer 21

Question and answer phrases between musicians.

Question 22

Meaning: Changes

Answer 22

The chords in a jazz piece.

Question 23

Meaning: Comping

Answer 23

Rhythmic chords usually played by piano.

Question 24

Meaning: Doit

Answer 24

Sliding upwards from a note.

Question 25

Meaning: Fall-off

Answer 25

Sliding downwards from a note.

Question 26

Meaning: Four-beat

Answer 26

Accompaniment with emphasis on all four beats of the bar (contrast two-beat with emphasis on 1 and 3).

Question 27

Meaning: Front Line

Answer 27

The melodic instruments in the band, plus any vocalist.

Question 28

Meaning: Horn (Jazz)

Answer 28

Any blown instrument.

Question 29

Meaning: Idiomatic

Answer 29

Particularly characteristic of the instrument, voice or style.

Question 30

Meaning: Mute

Answer 30

Put in bell of brass instruments to alter sound. Straight, cup, harmon and plunger are types.

Question 31

Meaning: Riff

Answer 31

Repeating melodic or rhythmic pattern.

Question 32

Meaning: Rubato

Answer 32

Expressive changes in tempo within a phrase.

Question 33

Meaning: Rhythm Section

Answer 33

Drums, bass, piano, guitar/banjo.

Question 34

Meaning: Scat

Answer 34

Vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables.

Question 35

Meaning: Smear

Answer 35

Scooping up to a note.

Question 36

Meaning: Stride

Answer 36

Piano style with alternating bass notes and chords in LH.

Question 37

Meaning: Stop-Time

Answer 37

Reduced accompaniment with chords on first beat and a gap for melody shine.

Question 38

Meaning: Swing

Answer 38

Types of jazz; also swung rhythm with uneven quavers.

Question 39

Meaning: Tailgate

Answer 39

Slide played on trombone.

Question 40

Meaning: Walking Bass

Answer 40

Even bass notes outlining notes of chord.