Which jazz style was built
around "collective improvisation"?
Which jazz style featured sections of
saxophones, trumpets & trombones?
What instrument?
Thelonius Monk & ???
Which instrument used the techniques
of stride, boogie-woogie and comping?
Who was the most prolific
composer of jazz?
Which jazz style was built around
pyrotechnic solo improvisation?
Charlie Parker & ???
Who was the jazz giant
at the cutting edge of
the style known as "cool"?
Which jazz style first combined
jazz with rock 'n' roll in the 1960s?
What is often considered the "Birthplace of Jazz"?
Which jazz style was built on aloof, extended melodic lines and complex chords?
Which instrument?
Duke Ellington & ??
Which style of jazz was known as "music for the head, not for the feet"? And why?
What vocal style was built
on improvised nonsense syllables?
Name J.C. and O.C. -
two sax players at the front
of the free jazz style.
Dizzy Gillespie & ???
What were Armstrong's two nicknames?
In traditional jazz, an improvised
solo takes its notes from the ______.
Who is known as the
"Father of Modern Jazz"?
Which jazz style allowed performers to improvise without either harmonic or rhythmic limits?
Who was known as
"The King of Swing"?
In what year was Storyville closed, pushing jazz musicians out of New Orleans?
New Orleans or
Dixieland
Big Band or Swing
the piano
The piano
Duke Ellington
Bop or Bebop
the saxophone
Miles Davis
Fusion
Congo Square -
New Orleans
Cool jazz
Bop - because the erratic beats made it difficult for dancing.
scatting
John Coltrane and
Ornette Coleman
the trumpet
"Satchmo" & "Pops"
harmony
Louis Armstrong
Free jazz
Benny Goodman
1917
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