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12/15/2009

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Term

True or False:

Beebop evolved at afer hour clubs such as

Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's Uptown House

Definition
True
Term
What is 3rd String?
Definition
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Term

Who is not on of the musicians at the top of

every powerpoint slide?

Definition

Included were:

Mary Lou Williams

John Coltrane

Term

Which is not a characteristic of

West Coast jazz?

Definition
Aggressive
Term
What is an alternative name of free jazz?
Definition
Experimental and Avant-Garde Jazz
Term

What social, political, cultural movement was

free jazz and 1960s jazz not associated with?

Definition
Harlem Renaissance
Term

What famous jazz musician has the nickname

Klook-a-Mop or simply Klook?

Definition
Kenny Clarke
Term
What was vocalese?
Definition
Vocalese uses lyrics, either improvised or set to preexisting instrumental solos.
Term
What 1949 record was famous and why?
Definition

Birth of the Cool

by Miles Davis

Term

Who were the members of the modern

jazz quartet?

Definition

John lewis

Milt Jackson

Percy Heath

Connie Kay

Term

Smooth jazz is the cross fertilization or

fusion of what and what?

Definition
R&B, Funk & pop
Term
Why did they nickname Charlie Parker "Bird"?
Definition

While driving, he hit a bird, took it home, and told

the mistress to cook the bird crispy fried

Term

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.

Definition
True
Term

What is progressive jazz?

What sub-genres fit under the umbrella of progressive jazz?

Definition
Term

Which of these is not a smooth jazz

artist or band?

Definition

These include:

George Duke

Grover Washington Jr.

George Benson

Fourplay

Kenny G

Term

During what style of jazz did the Hammon B-3

organ make its entrance into jazz?

Definition
Hard Bop
Term
Was Bebop ever danced to?
Definition
Yes, of course
Term

Which one of these groups was not a

jazz-rock fusion band?

Definition

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)

Term

Fusion is the alternate term for what style

of jazz?

Definition
Jazz Rock
Term

Which was not a major niche market

for smooth jazz?

Definition
14-25 year olds
Term
What was the 1964 album by John Coltrane?
Definition
A Love Supreme
Term
Who were the two in-class performences?
Definition

Professor Price - Piano

Landgerbe - Electric Guitar

Term
How was bebop created?
Definition
Jam sessions
Term

Put into the correct order:

jazz-rock, smooth jazz, jazz hip-hop

Definition
smooth jazz, jazz-rock, jazz hip-hop
Term

True or False:

Jazz reflects and reveals the social, political, economic,

cultural, and religious experiences of African Americans

in the United States

Definition
True
Term

Which was not an extremely important album

from the jazz-rock fusion era?

Definition

These include:

Bitches Brew

The Inner Mounting Flame

Head Hunters

My Spanish Heart

Heavy Weather

Term
Why was early bebop not recorded?
Definition

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?

Term
What instrument did Miles Davis play?
Definition
Trumpet
Term
Who was not in the classic John Coltrane quarted?
Definition
Reggie Workman
Term

Yes or No:

Were rock musicians just as influenced by jazz as

jazz musicians by rock?

Definition
Yes
Term
What are not characteristics of bebop?
Definition
Total departure from everything old
Term
What was the union card during bebop for?
Definition
Allowed musicians to play at certain clubs
Term

Which major style of jazz did not occur during

the 1950s?

Definition

These include:

East Coast Jazz

West Coast Jazz

The Progressive Jazz (Cool, Thir Stream, Modal)

Hard Bop (Funky, Soul, Gospel)

Term

True or False:

After the 1960s, the majority of all new styles of jazz

were fusions or cross-fertilizations with popular

forms of musc.

Definition
True
Term
Who were the fathers of free jazz?
Definition

John Coltrane

Ornete Coleman

Eric Dolphy

Term
Who was club bird land in NYC named after?
Definition
Charles Parker
Term

True or False:

Musicians, both popular and unpopular, are every day real people affected by social, political, economic, and religious situations.

Definition
True
Term
Who was considered the father of the cool school?
Definition
Lester Young
Term
What period of jazz marked the emegence of electric guitars, electric base, and electric drum kit?
Definition
Jazz-rock fusion (Late 1960s)
Term

True or False:

Third stream was popular with consumers.

Definition
False
Term
Was bebop palyed beyond midtown and uptown?
Definition
Yes
Term
Who were the fathers/architects or bebop?
Definition
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Term
What historic album introduced Modal Jazz?
Definition
Kind of Blues by Miles Davis
Term

What subcategories of jazz fit under the rubric

of progressive jazz?

Definition
Cool jazz and third stream
Term
What is a jam session?
Definition
A small group that got together after a gig late night to play new stuff
Term
What henre was more noted for its composers and arrangers rather than its musicians?
Definition
Cool Jazz
Term
Something about Emmit Price
Definition
Term
What instrument did John Coltrane play?
Definition
Saxophone
Term
What innovator has been at the forefron of more styles of jazz than any other?
Definition
Miles Davis
Term

Which style of jazz is not considered a type of

post-1960s fusion?

Definition
Latin jazz
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