Exam 1

Question 1

Thomas A. Dorsey

Answer 1

“Father of gospel”, fused together jazz and blues with gospel

Question 2

Frisk Jubillee singers

Answer 2

First African American vocal performance tour

Question 3

Country Blues

Answer 3

Uses bottlenecking

Question 4

Vaudeville

Answer 4

Distinguished by female singers

Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith

Question 5

Ma Rainey

Answer 5

“Mother of Blues”

Question 6

Bessie Smith

Answer 6

“Empress of Blues”

Question 7

W.C Handy

Answer 7

“Father of Blues” first to publish blues

Question 8

Minstrelsy

Answer 8

Comedic and Racist form of entertainment (dancing, song, jokes)

Question 9

James Bland

Answer 9

Minstrelsy performer and song composer

Question 10

Bert Williams

Answer 10

Taught Edward VII of England to dance

Question 11

Ragtime

Answer 11

Syncopated piano style. People danced close together

Question 12

Scott Joplin

Answer 12

King of Ragtime writers and was classically trained

Question 13

Tin Pan Alley

Answer 13

Section of New York (Manhattan) where sheet music was published

Question 14

The Castles

Answer 14

Husband and wife who popularized Ragtime with whites who traveled with James Reese Europe

Question 15

Brass Bands

Answer 15

Trompet/Cornet, Trombone, symbols, bass drum, snare, violin. (AABB) pattern

Question 16

Creols of Color

Answer 16

Jazz band (blacks)

Question 17

Congo Square

Answer 17

Slaves were given Sunday off to dance and play music.

Question 18

Front Line

Answer 18

Trumpet/Cornet, Trombone, Clarinet

Question 19

Storyville

Answer 19

Area of prostitution, nightclubs, gambling, and music

Question 20

Great Migration

Answer 20

Largest internal relocation of people in history of USA. Went to Northern Cities for betting paying jobs and equality

Question 21

Joe “King” Oliver

Answer 21

Claims to invent collective improvisation, Louis Armstrong’s mentor, “kid Ory’s band”, started “King Oliver Creole Jazz band” in Chicago

Question 22

Jellyroll Morton

Answer 22

Pianist, “King Porter Stomp”, “Jellyroll Morton and his Hot peppers.

Question 23

Freddic Keppard

Answer 23

Cornet, Creol Jazz band, played with handkerchief over hand

Question 24

The original Dixieland Jazz Band

Answer 24

First band to record a song in 1917

Question 25

Buddy Bolden

Answer 25

Cornet, known as "The Big Noise"

Question 26

Sidney Bechet

Answer 26

Saxophone, moved to paris

Question 27

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 27

Result of the great migration

Question 28

Duke Ellington

Answer 28

Cotton Club, Piano player (Big band and stride, most prolific composer, and big bands)

Question 29

Bubber Miley

Answer 29

Trademark of Jungle Jazz

Question 30

Paul Whiteman

Answer 30

"King of Jazz", semi-classical, symphonic jazz, paid musicians well

Question 31

"Changes"

Answer 31

Features Rhythm Boys with scat breaks

Question 32

Bing Crosby

Answer 32

Worked with Paul Whiteman, used microphone technique, sounded conversational

Question 33

Don Redman

Answer 33

Arranger for Fletcher henderson, all instruments. Led his own orchestra and wrote arrangements for Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Court Basie and Dorsey Brothers

Question 34

James P. Johnson

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"Father of Stride", fat wallers teacher, Played at rent parties

Question 35

What are some of Louis Armstrong's Contributions to Jazz?

Answer 35

Blues scale and harmonic form, solo improb, scat singing, fusing dixieland and Tin Pan Alley songs, and taught the world swing!

Question 36

Louis Armstrong

Answer 36

Riverboat for three years (learned how to play sheet music, Worked with Oliver in Creol Jazz band, played with lil' hardin, Hot five and Hot seven (recording group only, "West end Blues" trumpet solo to start, slower and mutes, scat singing voice, and civil rights actavist

Question 37

Earl hines

Answer 37

Pianist, trumpet style on the piano

Question 38

Bix Biederbeck

Answer 38

Cornetist/piano (behind Louis), knowon for unique town quality and improvisational style

Question 39

Chicago Style

Answer 39

Austin High Gang, expansive solos and polyphonic theme statements

Question 40

Coleman Hawkins

Answer 40

Template for saxophone, "Body and Sol" greatest jazz song of all time, vocalase