Final Exam II

Question 0

T or F: swing soloists were often so distinct in style that people tuning in over radio could often easily identify them

Answer 0

T

Question 1

How were soloists handled during the swing era?

Answer 1

Assigned to specific parts often no

More than 8 measures

Question 2

Most controversial incidence of a soloist leaving a band

Answer 2

When cootie Williams left dukes band for goodmans

Question 3

One way soloists worked off frustrations with their restrictions was to _________

Answer 3

Participate in jam sessions

Question 4

Teddy Wilson

Answer 4

Piano in goodmans quartet

Question 5

Lionel Hampton

Answer 5

Vibraphone in goodmans quartet

Question 6

Whose band was basically the only one with a vibraphone during the jazz swing era

Answer 6

Benny goodmans

Question 7

Which band leader wanted to racially integrate his band, a radical step on stage?

Answer 7

Benny goodman

Question 8

The film _______ featured soloists who had become famous for their work with count Basie, Lionel Hampton, and others, and captured the idea of what the narrator called “___________”

Answer 8

Jammin the blues

A midnight symphony

Question 9

What changed about jazz and jazz bands post war?

Answer 9

Focused less on checks and balances of big bands and more on small bands and individual soloists

Question 10

Who did Coleman Hawkins work extensively with during the swing era?

Answer 10

Fletcher Henderson

Question 11

The first important saxophonists in jazz were ___________ and ____________.

Answer 11

Sidney bichet

Frank trumbauer

Question 12

Sidney bichet focused on what?

Answer 12

Soprano sax

Question 13

Frank trumbauer focused on what?

Answer 13

C melody sax

Question 14

Hawkins established what?

Answer 14

The tenor sax as the embodiment of jazz

Question 15

T or F: hawkins’s style was not considered the “correct” style of playing

Answer 15

F

Question 16

What instrument sometimes rivaled the trumpet as jazz’s main instrument?

Answer 16

Tenor saxophone

Question 17

Hawkins mastered chords and the way the relate to each other by?

Answer 17

Developing his style based on arpeggios

Question 18

Arpeggio

Answer 18

A chords notes are played successively, one at a time

Question 19

What made hawkins’s style so unique?

Answer 19

He broke down chords into component notes

Question 20

Who was rival to Hawkins and rose while he was in Europe?

Answer 20

Lester young

Question 21

Went to England to sign with British bandleader

Was greeted at every stop and ended up staying for 5 years

Answer 21

Hawkins

Question 22

Ben Webster

Answer 22

Studied violin and piano before taking up tenor sax

Question 23

Ben websters mentors

Answer 23

Budd Johnson and Lester young

Question 24

Tenor star and arranger in earl Hines big band

Answer 24

Budd Johnson

Question 25

The three pillars of the tenor saxophone

Answer 25

Hawkins Young Webster

Question 26

Began on alto sax and later switched to tenor. Took spot as hendorsons tenor soloist, and later joined cab Calloway band

Answer 26

Chu Berry

Question 27

Most original and influential trumpeter of the swing era

Answer 27

Roy Eldridge

Question 28

Eldridge continued to study ________, but his primary stimulation came from ________.

Answer 28

Armstrong | Saxophonists

Question 29

First black musician to sit in a white orchestra

Answer 29

Roy Eldridge

Question 30

Who's sound did Lester young sought to reproduce?

Answer 30

Frank traumbaer

Question 31

Which musician was drafted into the war

Answer 31

Lester young

Question 32

Hawkins vs young

Answer 32

- Hawkins arpeggiated each chord in a harmonic progression, while young touched on some chords and ignored others - hawkins had a more restricted attitude towards dissonance and rhythm, while Young was more liberal - Hawkins phrases were tied to the beat, while youngs sometimes disregarded the beat

Question 33

Two contrary factors that stimulated jazz growth abroad

Answer 33

Serious exhilarating art | Rebellion and liberty

Question 34

Reinhardt and grappelli's band

Answer 34

The quintette

Question 35

What replaced piano and drums in the quintette

Answer 35

Two rhythm guitars and bass

Question 36

What instruments did carter play?

Answer 36

Alto sax and trumpet

Question 37

Carters four components to the impact he made on jazz

Answer 37

Instrumental Composing Band leading Social activism

Question 38

Who established the alto saxophone as a major jazz instrument?

Answer 38

Benny carter

Question 39

The first important jazz arranger to cut away the complex ornamentation of most dance bands

Answer 39

Benny carter

Question 40

The most imitated trademark in Benny carter's orchestrations was ___________.

Answer 40

His writing for the reed section

Question 41

The first full time singers in a dance band

Answer 41

Bing Crosby | Mildred bailey

Question 42

First major interracial night spot in the country

Answer 42

New York cafe society

Question 43

Who became Ella's legal guardian?

Answer 43

Chick Webb

Question 44

Which recording made Ella famous?

Answer 44

A tisket a tasket

Question 45

The foundation of swing bands lie in which section?

Answer 45

Rhythm

Question 46

Which instruments helped set the stage for bebop?

Answer 46

Rhythm

Question 47

Stride pianist who admired James p Johnson

Answer 47

Fats Waller

Question 48

After Ellington, _________ remains jazz's most successful pop songwriter

Answer 48

Fats Waller

Question 49

What did much of fats wallers fame come from?

Answer 49

Songs he wrote for theatrical events

Question 50

A pianist who was blind

Answer 50

Art Tatum

Question 51

Word used to identify an artist of masterly technique and skill

Answer 51

Virtuoso

Question 52

T or F: art Tatum was generally accepted into mainstream

Answer 52

False

Question 53

Which instrument lost its recognition and importance in jazz and was sometimes seen as unimportant?

Answer 53

acoustic Guitar

Question 54

Who's band did Christian first join?

Answer 54

Benny Goodman

Question 55

Charlie Christian

Answer 55

brought guitar to forefront of band

Question 56

What historical figure was Charlie Christian compared to?

Answer 56

Thomas Edison

Question 57

Of all the instruments in the jazz ensemble, the __________ was the slowest in reaching maturity.

Answer 57

Bass

Question 58

Who codified the walking bass

Answer 58

Walter page

Question 59

Expanded the bass walk by using more advanced harmonies

Answer 59

Milt Hinton

Question 60

Who also won respect as an important jazz photographer?

Answer 60

Hinton

Question 61

Most in demand, frequently recorded bassist of his generation

Answer 61

Milt Hinton

Question 62

Another bassist who began recording at 16 and spent three years with hendorsons band, encouraged to play solos

Answer 62

Israel Crosby

Question 63

Best known bassist of swing era not famous for playing but because he led the most popular small band of its day

Answer 63

John Kirby

Question 64

Bassist who was known for his ability to imitate scat singing

Answer 64

Slam Stewart

Question 65

Who did the most to advance the cause of the bass?

Answer 65

Duke Ellington

Question 66

Jimmy Blanton

Answer 66

Revolutionized the bass instrument

Question 67

Which instrument did Blanton start out on

Answer 67

Violin

Question 68

Slow syncopated rhythms derived from boogie woogie

Answer 68

Shuffle rhythms

Question 69

First great swing drummer and first to lead his own orchestra

Answer 69

Chick Webb

Question 70

First drummer to achieve the status of a matinee idol

Answer 70

Gene Krupa

Question 71

Gene kruppas trademark

Answer 71

Playing Tom toms

Question 72

A drummer who made his mark with count Basie, creating the fleet four four drive that made Basies rhythm section a swing era touchstone

Answer 72

Jo jones

Question 73

One of the first drummers to work out a coherent logical approach to solos

Answer 73

Big Sid

Question 74

The first white drummer to master African American percussion

Answer 74

Dave Tough

Question 76

Famous for his speed and played with tommy Dorsey's big band

Answer 76

Buddy Rich

Question 77

who revolutionized jazz by using arpeggios

Answer 77

Hawkins