Jazz Flashcards
What drug became associated with bebop?
Heroin
What does Count Basie and Duke Ellington have in common?
Pianists
Swing music helped the recording industry recover from what?
The Depression
How did Benny Goodman treat black musicians?
He used them as composers and arrangers, and eventually hired several for his band
About how many musicians are in a big band?
14-15
What is the major difference between a blues chord progression and a typical bebop chord progression?
Bebop chord progressions are more complex
What album began the widespread interest in fusion jazz?
Bitches Brew
Who plays the trumpet with is trademark growling style?
Blubber Miley
Swing rhythm can be roughly defined as what pattern?
Long-short, long-short, long-short, long-short
Which style was associated with revolutionary social critique?
Free jazz
Dixieland Jazz incorporated improvisation in small breaks called:
Stoptime
What was Louis Armstrong known for doing?
Improvising
Singing
Playing the cornet (trumpet)
According to Billy Strayhorn, what made Duke Ellington’s sound unique?
He matched the part and the man’s character
Dixieland jazz includes what rocking rhythmic style?
Two-beat
What was the primary function if swing music?
Dancing
What contributed to the end of the swing era?
World War II interrupted much of American life.
There was a recording ban for instrumentalists in 1942.
Some black musicians objected to the minstrel-like characters of some performers like Louis Armstrong.
Black musicians were frustrated with segregated dance halls.
Musicians grew bored with the swing format.
How could you describe the chord progressions (harmonic background) of modal jazz?
Open
What was Thelonious Monk known for that many of his fellow bepoppers were not?
Composition
What was the primary focus of bebop?
Improvisation
What kind of singing uses nonsense syllables and is good for improvisation?
Scat
What instruments are in atypical bebop group?
Saxophone, trumpet, rhythm section
Jazz that focuses on new ways of improvising; emphasis on is on innovation is what?
Avant-garde jazz
Which one is a typical format for the performance of a bebop song?
Melody (head), improvised solos, melody
What instrument did Dizzy Gillespie play?
Trumpet
