Jazz test Flashcards
(52 cards)
Where was the cotton club Located?
Harlem, New York
Who got his start At The Cotton club /acted as a music director?
Duke Elligton
How where the Racial Relations at The Cotton Club?
Odd, African Americans were allowed to perform but not allowed to watch performances only white people were allowed to be in the audience
What era of music did the Cotton Club help?
Swing
Where is Apollo theater Located?
Harlem, New York
Who got their start at Apollo theater? (three musicians)
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Thelonious Monk
True or false Helped amature musicians get their start
True
Where was Minton’s playhouse Located?
Harlem, New York
What type of Jazz got its start at Minton’s playhouse
Bebop
True or False musicians went late in the evening after their normal jazz gigs and created the style known as bebop
True
When did Minton’s playhouse open?
1940
Where was Harlem exactly located?
Manhattan New York
Where was the “birthplace of jazz”?
New Orleans
What era of Jazz was Kanas city A big part in
Swing
Who played the piano
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk
Who Played the sax.
Charlie Parker, John Coltrane
Who played the trumpet
Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis
Who sang vocals
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith
Who played the clairenet
Benny Goodman
What was the first era of Jazz music (in Cronolgical Order)
Blues
Describe Blues
started by African-Americans who were forced into slavery as field hollers as a way to communicate has a lot of similarities with spirituals tells sad realistic narrative stories
Who Sang Blues
(Bessie Smith & Billie Holiday)
What was the second Era of Jazz (in order?
Ragtime
describe Ragtime
started at the beginning of the 1900’s as piano music used for people to dance to cakewalks
