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True or False:
Beebop evolved at afer hour clubs such as
Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's Uptown House |
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Music that emphasizes arrangement. Only works for videos. Not functional for ticket sales |
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Who is not on of the musicians at the top of
every powerpoint slide? |
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Included were:
Mary Lou Williams
John Coltrane |
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Which is not a characteristic of
West Coast jazz? |
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What is an alternative name of free jazz? |
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Experimental and Avant-Garde Jazz |
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What social, political, cultural movement was
free jazz and 1960s jazz not associated with? |
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What famous jazz musician has the nickname
Klook-a-Mop or simply Klook? |
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Vocalese uses lyrics, either improvised or set to preexisting instrumental solos. |
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What 1949 record was famous and why? |
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Birth of the Cool
by Miles Davis |
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Who were the members of the modern
jazz quartet? |
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John lewis
Milt Jackson
Percy Heath
Connie Kay |
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Smooth jazz is the cross fertilization or
fusion of what and what? |
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Why did they nickname Charlie Parker "Bird"? |
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While driving, he hit a bird, took it home, and told
the mistress to cook the bird crispy fried |
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True or False:
Latin jazz was not new during the 1940s, in fact,
the earliest forms of jazz going back to Jelly Roll Morton
and others were influenced by latin music characteristics. |
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What is progressive jazz?
What sub-genres fit under the umbrella of progressive jazz? |
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Which of these is not a smooth jazz
artist or band? |
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These include:
George Duke
Grover Washington Jr.
George Benson
Fourplay
Kenny G |
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During what style of jazz did the Hammon B-3
organ make its entrance into jazz? |
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Was Bebop ever danced to? |
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Which one of these groups was not a
jazz-rock fusion band? |
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These include:
Miles Davis
Tony William (Lifetime)
Chick Corea (Return to Forever)
John McLauglin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter (Weather Report)
Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters) |
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Fusion is the alternate term for what style
of jazz? |
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Which was not a major niche market
for smooth jazz? |
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What was the 1964 album by John Coltrane? |
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Who were the two in-class performences? |
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Professor Price - Piano
Landgerbe - Electric Guitar |
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Put into the correct order:
jazz-rock, smooth jazz, jazz hip-hop |
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smooth jazz, jazz-rock, jazz hip-hop |
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True or False:
Jazz reflects and reveals the social, political, economic,
cultural, and religious experiences of African Americans
in the United States |
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Which was not an extremely important album
from the jazz-rock fusion era? |
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These include:
Bitches Brew
The Inner Mounting Flame
Head Hunters
My Spanish Heart
Heavy Weather |
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Why was early bebop not recorded? |
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Many of ther ecording presses were used by tgovernment to make weapons for the military. Government offered more money to the manufacturing plant than their profit from records.
The American Federation of Musicians Strike in 1942? |
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What instrument did Miles Davis play? |
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Who was not in the classic John Coltrane quarted? |
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Yes or No:
Were rock musicians just as influenced by jazz as
jazz musicians by rock? |
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What are not characteristics of bebop? |
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Total departure from everything old |
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What was the union card during bebop for? |
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Allowed musicians to play at certain clubs |
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Which major style of jazz did not occur during
the 1950s? |
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These include:
East Coast Jazz
West Coast Jazz
The Progressive Jazz (Cool, Thir Stream, Modal)
Hard Bop (Funky, Soul, Gospel) |
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True or False:
After the 1960s, the majority of all new styles of jazz
were fusions or cross-fertilizations with popular
forms of musc. |
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Who were the fathers of free jazz? |
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John Coltrane
Ornete Coleman
Eric Dolphy |
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Who was club bird land in NYC named after? |
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True or False:
Musicians, both popular and unpopular, are every day real people affected by social, political, economic, and religious situations. |
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Who was considered the father of the cool school? |
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What period of jazz marked the emegence of electric guitars, electric base, and electric drum kit? |
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Jazz-rock fusion (Late 1960s) |
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True or False:
Third stream was popular with consumers. |
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Was bebop palyed beyond midtown and uptown? |
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Who were the fathers/architects or bebop? |
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie |
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What historic album introduced Modal Jazz? |
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Kind of Blues by Miles Davis |
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What subcategories of jazz fit under the rubric
of progressive jazz? |
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Cool jazz and third stream |
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A small group that got together after a gig late night to play new stuff |
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What henre was more noted for its composers and arrangers rather than its musicians? |
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Something about Emmit Price |
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What instrument did John Coltrane play? |
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What innovator has been at the forefron of more styles of jazz than any other? |
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Which style of jazz is not considered a type of
post-1960s fusion? |
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