Final Exam Review

Question 0

Swing was a _________

Answer 0

National music

Question 1

Count Basie took root where ?

Answer 1

Kansas City

Question 2

Blacks started heading to the southwest when? What did they call this region?

Answer 2

After the civil war seeking economic opportunity and freedom. Called it the territory

Question 3

Boogie woogie’s early nickname

Answer 3

Fast western

Question 4

Where did boogie woogie come from? When did it most rapidly spread?

Answer 4

Impossible to know, 1920s

Question 5

As with ragtime, boogie woogie was built on what? How was it different from ragtime?

Answer 5

A firm rhythmic foundation in the left hand

Different because it doubled the pace with ostinatos that divided each beat into two

Question 6

Boogie woogie gives measures a ________ feeling

Answer 6

Eight beat feeling

Question 7

Where was one of the main places to hear boogie woogie in Kansas City?

Answer 7

Sunset cafe

Question 8

Who were the main attractions at the sunset cafe?

Answer 8

Big joe turner and Pete Johnson

Question 9

What did Pete Johnson become famous for?

Answer 9

Playing percussive blues that seemed to never end

Question 10

What style music was rock n rolls predecessor?

Answer 10

Boogie woogie

Question 11

What happened to boogie woogie in the 1930s?

Answer 11

Struggled to survive because it was hard to transfer to the printed page, but then made a comeback when it became a craze with the whites

Question 12

Folk revival

Answer 12

Self conscious attempt to publicize black folk traditions whose central figure was John Hammond

Question 13

Territory bands

Answer 13

Worked a geographic area no more than a day’s drive from their headquarters

Question 14

T or F All territory bands were male

Answer 14

F

Question 15

T or F territory bands were extremely variant in that they were made up of black or white and played different music styles

Answer 15

T

Question 16

T or F only a few territory bands ever set foot in a studio

Answer 16

T

Question 17

The 12 clouds of joy was led by

Answer 17

Tuba player Andy Kirk

Question 18

Typical life for a territory band during the depression

Answer 18

Constant touring
No access to recording studios
Constant threat of financial failure

Question 19

3 future star saxophonists that passed through the twelve clouds of joy

Answer 19

Ben Webster
Lester young
Buddy tate

Question 20

Mary Lou Williams

Answer 20

Pianist and arranger of twelve clouds of joy

Question 21

How did Mary Lou learn to play piano?

Answer 21

Listening to records of jelly roll James p Johnson and earl Hines growing up

Question 22

Most famous band leader from Kansas City was? Where did he grow up?

Answer 22

Count Basie

New Jersey

Question 23

How did count Basie grow up

Answer 23

Working class family in New Jersey

Question 24

Who did count Basie hear playing from his hotel window in Oklahoma City

Answer 24

Blue Devils

Question 25

Blue Devils

Answer 25

Led by bassist Walter page Commonwealth band Finally dissolved because of this method

Question 26

Benny Moten

Answer 26

Skilled ragtime pianist Successful business man Died from surgical complications

Question 27

Size of Basies band

Answer 27

Small, with 9 pieces

Question 28

Did count Basies small band use written arrangements or not?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Head arrangements

Answer 29

Music collectively stored in heads of musicians

Question 30

What were jam sessions usually full of?

Answer 30

Head arrangements

Question 31

Jam sessions

Answer 31

Collective mood but only one soloist at a time; the more musicians, the more notes were needed

Question 32

Who brought Basies band into the mainstream

Answer 32

John Hammond

Question 33

Industry standard band size

Answer 33

15 members

Question 34

Who did count Basie work closely with to arrange for his band?

Answer 34

Trombonist Eddie Durham

Question 35

What made Basie so unique?

Answer 35

Insisting on simplicity and refusing to interfere with the groove

Question 36

Most crucial characteristic of Kansas City jazz? | Who was at its core?

Answer 36

Distinctive dance groove of four beats per bar | Walter Page

Question 37

Blue devils: Drums Guitar Bassist

Answer 37

Jo jones Freddie green Gene Ramey

Question 38

Count Basies rhythm section was known as

Answer 38

The all American Rhythm section

Question 39

Eddie Durham

Answer 39

One of the earliest electric guitarists who eventually played trombone in the blue devils

Question 40

Trombones in count Basies band

Answer 40

Eddie Durham | Dickie wells

Question 41

Buck Clayton

Answer 41

Trumpeter brought to count Basies band

Question 42

Trumpets in count Basies band

Answer 42

Clayton | Edison

Question 43

Most famous soloist to come out of count Basies band

Answer 43

Saxophonist Lester young

Question 44

Lester youngs dueling partner

Answer 44

Herschel Evans

Question 45

Basies vocalist

Answer 45

Jimmy rushing

Question 46

Who was the only one left after the breaking up of count Basies big band when he planned to revive it?

Answer 46

Freddie green

Question 47

What was count Basies new big band called?

Answer 47

New Testament

Question 48

How did Ellington keep his musicians together during WWII?

Answer 48

Subsidizing them with his own money

Question 49

Neal Hefti | Thad Jones

Answer 49

Basie's new arrangers for the New Testament

Question 50

Why did Ellington dislike the term "jazz"?

Answer 50

Sensed it tended to marginalize the creativity of black musicians

Question 51

How did Ellington compose his music?

Answer 51

Collaborating with his musicians

Question 52

T OR F no permanent record survives of ellingtons music

Answer 52

T

Question 53

Ellingtons co composer

Answer 53

Billy stray horn

Question 54

What "rule" was duke Ellington an exception to?

Answer 54

Organizing the band a certain way

Question 55

Bubber Miley

Answer 55

Trumpet player, one of ellingtons earliest compatriots

Question 56

Tricky Sam

Answer 56

Trombonist, one of ellingtons earliest compatriots

Question 57

Sonny Greer

Answer 57

Drummer, one of ellingtons earliest compatriots

Question 58

Harry carney

Answer 58

Joined Ellington and played baritone sax

Question 59

Who was hired by Ellington in Miley's place

Answer 59

Cootie Williams

Question 60

Lawrence brown

Answer 60

Dignified man from ministers family in Kansas who joined ellingtons band as a trombonist

Question 61

Barney Bigard

Answer 61

clarinet and tenor sax with Ellington

Question 62

Juan Tizol

Answer 62

Ellingtons trombonist who played with valves rather than a slide

Question 63

Ellingtons trombonists

Answer 63

Lawrence brown | Juan Tizol

Question 64

Where did Ellington take his band in early 1930s

Answer 64

England and France

Question 65

Who did Europeans compare duke Ellington to

Answer 65

Shakespeare

Question 66

Film in which Ellington played himself

Answer 66

Symphony in black

Question 67

Most critics consider when to be the peak of ellingtons career?

Answer 67

1940s

Question 68

Johnny hodges

Answer 68

Chief alto saxophonist in ellingtons band

Question 69

Early 1950z

Answer 69

Lots of theaters demolished or renovated, radio no longer broadcasted live music

Question 70

Stephan Gripelli

Answer 70

Swing violin

Question 71

Introverted intellectual who declined the limelight

Answer 71

billy strayhorn

Question 72

Art Tatum

Answer 72

Pianist, one of the best at the time and one of Stephan's idols

Question 73

Diz

Answer 73

rhythm guitarist

Question 74

at what age did Gripelli reach international acclaim?

Answer 74

70

Question 75

what was Gripelli's childhood like

Answer 75

ran away from orphanage at 10 years old, self taught violinist

Question 76

Martin Taylor

Answer 76

one of the best jazz guitarists

Question 77

________ was one of Stephan Gripelli's favorite people

Answer 77

Queen Elizabeth

Question 78

_________ wrote more sons than any other american composer

Answer 78

Duke Ellington

Question 79

What did ellington do after he became famous?

Answer 79

bought his mother many gifts and a car to travel with him.

Question 80

Fatts Waller's mentor

Answer 80

James P Johnson

Question 81

Who sold over 400 songs to music publishers several times because they didn't pay him much?

Answer 81

Fats Waller

Question 82

Big Band was made up of?

Answer 82

Sax, reed, brass sections and rhythm section

Question 83

Instruments that made up the brass section of a big band

Answer 83

trumpet trombone

Question 84

Instruments that made up the rhythm section

Answer 84

drums, bass, piano

Question 85

Roseland ballroom

Answer 85

NY ballroom for only whites

Question 86

Which ballroom allowed all races?

Answer 86

Savoy

Question 87

Jelly Roll

Answer 87

claimed to have invented jazz all by himself, lost his band and everything, thought it was voodoo curse

Question 88

Sidney Bichet

Answer 88

exiled from france, came and formed his own band

Question 89

Hammond

Answer 89

raised in larger mansion, rich railroad family, dropped out of Yale to become musician and organized jam sessions for musicians and find new talent

Question 90

How was Ellington different from other big band leaders?

Answer 90

Members stayed in the band for years and so he wrote specifically for each individual member

Question 91

Duke's mother's death

Answer 91

led to deep depression, stopped writing and didn't see anyone for a long time

Question 92

Which piece of Ellington's did Hammond criticize?

Answer 92

piece he wrote for his mother called reminiscing in tempo

Question 93

Whose band was doing good and then during great depression was desperate to find work, no club owners liked their swing except the last stop in CA at the Pallomar ballroom?

Answer 93

Benny Goodman's

Question 94

whose band was the most swinging band of all

Answer 94

COunt Basies

Question 95

when did swing reach its most popular point?

Answer 95

1930s, during great depression

Question 96

Glazer

Answer 96

Armstrong's new agent, put Louis in movies which made him even more famous