Final

Question 1

One of the first recordings of Charlie Parker features him with which big band?

Answer 1

Jane McShan

Question 2

Which big band did Dizzy get his start?

Answer 2

Cab Calloway

Question 3

Where did early bebop movement take place?

Answer 3

52nd street

Question 4

“Salt Peanuts” has a chord progression that is called?

Answer 4

Rhythm change

Question 5

Who did Bird write “Moose The Mooch” for?

Answer 5

Drug dealer

Question 6

“Manteca” is a combo of what styles of music?

Answer 6

Afro Cuban and bebop

Question 7

Which pianist got electro shock therapy?

Answer 7

Bud Powell

Question 8

Where did Thelonius Monk start as a musician?

Answer 8

Coleman Hawkins

Question 9

Monk was fond of a scale called?

Answer 9

Whole tone scale

Question 10

Lenny Tristano is remembered for his?

Answer 10

Students

Question 11

Before become a pop star crooner, this artist had a successful trio of guitar, bass, and piano

Answer 11

Nat King Cole

Question 12

Which virtuoso pianist led a successful piano trio?

Answer 12

Oscar Peterson

Question 13

What did Ahmad Jamal use more than any other pianist in his era?

Answer 13

Space

Question 14

Where did Miles Davis go to college?

Answer 14

Juliard

Question 15

Where did Davis get his real education?

Answer 15

52nd street

Question 16

What composer/arranger did Miles collaborate with for the money sessions the 1940s?

Answer 16

Gil Evans

Question 17

What was the name of the quartet led by vibraphonist Milt Jackson and pianist John Lewis?

Answer 17

Modern jazz quartet

Question 18

Gerry Mulligan formed a piano-less quartet featuring trumpeter _?

Answer 18

Chet Baker

Question 19

Which pianist had a hit jazz record, that featured the use of odd time signatures?

Answer 19

Dave Brubeck

Question 20

Where did Davis make his big comeback after being a prisoner to his heroin addiction?

Answer 20

Signed with Columbia after

Question 21

Who did Miles play with at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival?

Answer 21

Thelonius Monk

Question 22

Who did Miles hire on tenor sax in the 1950s quintet?

Answer 22

John Coltrane

Question 23

The album Milestones brought in alto saxophonist _ to the band.

Answer 23

Cannonball Aderly

Question 24

Davis’ album Kind of Blue, feats. many songs based on one chord. AKA _.

Answer 24

Modol jazz

Question 25

Bill Evans trio played around with the concept of _ _

Answer 25

Internalized beat

Question 26

Coltrane wrote a song that proved to be too difficult for pianist Tommy Flanagan. What is the song

Answer 26

Giant steps

Question 27

What is a Hammond B3 organ?

Answer 27

Two rows of keys, tone sliders, foot pedals

Question 28

What is different about the Leslie speaker?

Answer 28

Speaker pointed up to come, cone spins sound around room

Question 29

What unique was did Wes Montgomery played guitar

Answer 29

Used his thumb

Question 30

What was Montgomery's way for developing a solo?

Answer 30

Single not lines, to playing octaves, chords

Question 31

Besides standards and originals, what kinds of songs did Wes Montgomery begin recording in the mid to late 1960s?

Answer 31

Started recording rock and pop songs with improv

Question 32

Art Blakey led a group that fostered bio and coming musicians for over 30 years. Name the group.

Answer 32

Jazz messengers

Question 33

In what way did Charles Mingus engages with many different styles of jazz?

Answer 33

He was a side man for Armstrong, Ellington, and Parker

Question 34

What are the lyrics to "Fables of Faubus" about?

Answer 34

A response to Orville Faubus, who refused to let black students into a white school

Question 35

Miles Davis' album ESP, what was the first to feature his new tenor player _.

Answer 35

Wayne Shorter

Question 36

Describe the live repertoire of Miles Davis' so-called second great quintet

Answer 36

Play a lot of standards

Question 37

What was unique about Ornette Coleman's sax?

Answer 37

It was plastic

Question 38

Ornette Coleman's album Free Jazz featured?

Answer 38

Double quartet album

Question 39

In an interview for the 2013 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, this pianist explained that there were "many ways to play the piano."

Answer 39

Cecil Taylor

Question 40

Describe the playing of saxophone player Albert Ayler.

Answer 40

Guttural

Question 41

Fusion is generally referring to the fusing of jazz and what?

Answer 41

Rock

Question 42

What was the name of Davis' seminal fusion album in 1970

Answer 42

Bitches Brew

Question 43

Describe the music of Davis' Bitches Brew album

Answer 43

Like a jam session

Question 44

What was Herbie Hancock's first hit record?

Answer 44

Watermelon man

Question 45

What was the name of Herbie Hancock's funk group

Answer 45

Head hunters

Question 46

What was the name of Hancock's hot single from Future Shock, that featured a DJ?

Answer 46

RockIt

Question 47

What was the name of Chick Corea's fusion band in the 1970s?

Answer 47

Return to Forever

Question 48

Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul led a successful fusion group called _.

Answer 48

Weather report

Question 49

Who was the bassist for Weather Report?

Answer 49

Jacco Restorus

Question 50

What was the name of Pat Metheny's first album?

Answer 50

Bright size life

Question 51

Who played bass on the album?

Answer 51

Jacco

Question 52

Metheny is also known for his interview in which he lashed out at smooth jazz artist _.

Answer 52

Kenny g