Test3

Question 0

What was Charlie Parker’s nickname?

Answer 0

Bird

Question 1

The most influential leader of bebop movement was?

Answer 1

Charlie Parker

Question 2

The best known singer to emerge from bebop period?

Answer 2

Sarah Vaughan

Question 3

The decade when modern jazz started:

Answer 3

1940’s

Question 4

The period from the early beginnings of jazz in New Orleans to the end of the big band era is called what?

Answer 4

The classic era

Question 5

A more complex chord that was often used in place of the standard chord was called:

Answer 5

Shaka

Question 6

The nickname for the new “modern jazz” was called:

Answer 6

Bebop

Question 7

What classical composer was very influential to the beboppers?

Answer 7

Bela Bartok and Igor Stravinsky

Question 8

A typical Bob line was:

Answer 8

Full of twist & turns

Question 9

Some elements of the new modern jazz were all but the following:

Answer 9

Clarinet

Question 10

Played brilliantly by Charlie Parker, one of the most recognizable 12 bar blues in history:

Answer 10

Parker’s mood

Question 11

The trumpeter who was also a main leader of the new music called modern jazz:

Answer 11

Dizzy Gillespie

Question 12

“Dropping a bomb” referred to:

Answer 12

An abrupt pop on the bass drum.

Question 13

The famous cool school pianist who worked with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and experimented with odd time meters:

Answer 13

Dave Rudeback

Question 14

The most influential of the bebop pianist:

Answer 14

Bud Pal

Question 15

The pianist leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet:

Answer 15

John Luis

Question 16

The first bebop composer and considered to be second only to Duke Ellington in his compositional brilliance:

Answer 16

Thelonious Monk

Question 17

What famous jazz group has been likened to classical chamber musicians?

Answer 17

Modern Jazz Quartet

Question 18

The young generation of white musicians who identified with bebop music:

Answer 18

Beats

Question 19

What famous bebop trumpeter was also known for incorporating Afro-Cuban elements into music his music?

Answer 19

Dizzy Gillespie

Question 20

Sarah Vaughan’s nickname was what?

Answer 20

Sassy

Question 21

This brilliant clean living Trumpeter who was tragically killed in a car wreck at the height of his career:

Answer 21

Clifford Brown

Question 22

Bebop composers would often use a standard chord progression the make up a new melody to avoid copyright. true or false?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The white pianist that Miles Davis hired for his “kind of blue” recording session:

Answer 23

Skins j’s

Question 24

The first bebop tenor player was?

Answer 24

Dexter Gordon

Question 25

Drummers in the cool movement played differently than in the other styles of jams by doing what?

Answer 25

By making use of the wire brushes

Question 26

Kenton’s band swung differently than Count Basie’s band in that it:

Answer 26

Solemn wavy-feeling

Question 27

Stan Kenton in called his music:

Answer 27

Progressive jazz

Question 28

The tenor player with Duke Ellington’s band who played an unprecedented 27 choruses at the Newport Jazz Festival:

Answer 28

Paul Gonzaleves

Question 29

The titan tenor player who after making it to the top of it abruptly stopped playing and practiced for months under a bridge to get better:

Answer 29

Sonny Rollins

Question 30

The big band leader who was associated with the West Coast jazz movement and who led the way for college stage bands:

Answer 30

Stan Kenton

Question 31

Known as the most distinctive tenor saxophonist to emerge during the 1940s and a leader of the cool school movement and later a master of bossa nova:

Answer 31

Stan Getz

Question 32

The gifted arranger who wrote brilliantly for some of Miles Davis’s best recordings:

Answer 32

Gil Evans

Question 33

Lennie Tristano’s most famous student:

Answer 33

Lee Konitz

Question 34

An innovative pianist and composer who invented the modern Jazz alternative to the bebop style and was also the influential teacher who’s most famous student was alto saxophonist Lee Konitz:

Answer 34

Lennie Tristano

Question 35

Miles Davis is one of the main leaders of what school?

Answer 35

Cool Jazz

Question 36

Bebopper’s loved employing disowned and intervals in the brain. One of their favorites to use was:

Answer 36

The flat fith

Question 37

This progressive jazz big band leader was one of the most important figures in the development of jam education because of the jazz camps he set up around the country:

Answer 37

Stan Kenton

Question 38

This musician and a nine piece band recorded the album that was called “Birth of the Cool” and set the precedence for the next stage of development in jazz history:

Answer 38

Miles Davis

Question 39

The famous bebop baritone sax player who worked with Miles Davis and was the primary composer on the Birth of the Cool album:

Answer 39

Gerry Mulligan

Question 40

Which singer from the swing era adapted beautifully in the bebop style?

Answer 40

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 41

The modern style that is more subdued than the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie:

Answer 41

Cool school jazz

Question 42

Based in California for three years, Gerry Mulligan is always associated with what school?

Answer 42

West Coast cool