History of Jazz (CU Boulder ) Exam 1 – Flashcards
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"Singing the Blues" by Frank Traumbauer is an example of what kind of Jazz?
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Chicago Style
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"Backwater Blues" Features what singer
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Bessie Smith
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"East St. Louis Toodle-oo" is an example of what style jazz
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Jungle Style
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"Grandpa's Spells" is closely related to what type of jazz?
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New Orleans Style
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"Tiger Rag" is a recording led by ......
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Nick LaRocca
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"Maple Leaf Rag" is an example of ...
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Ragtime Jazz
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"West End Blues" begins with a "...." structure
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Monophonic
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"Down South Camp Meeting" is an example of "......" music
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Hot Dance
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Tiger Rag by the Quintet of the Hot Club is an example of
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Jazz in Europe
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DipperMouth Blues features Trumpeters ....................
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King Oliver and Louis Armstrong
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"East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" includes a trumpet player changing his timbre by playing
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with a mute
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Tiger Rag by Quintet of the Hot Club includes Guitarist
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Django Reinhardt
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"West end Blues: is an early example of
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scat singing by Louis Armstrong
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"Tiger Rag" is a recording by
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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"Down South Camp Meeting" is a recording by
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Fletcher Henderson and his Orquestra
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King Oliver's Creole Jazz band recorded their first records in New Orleans
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False
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Eubie Blake was the pianist known as the father of stride
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False
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Bix Beiderbeck was known for his association with Chicago Style Jazz
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True
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Syncopation comes from an African Musical Heritage
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True
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"Phrasing" has been defined as combinations of articulations to create musical meaning.
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True
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The Great Migration involved large groups of people moving out of the South into Northern industrial urban areas
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True
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Ragtime is considered a style of jazz because it involves improvisation
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False
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Duke Ellington established his popularity through radio broadcasts from Congo Square
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False, the cotton club
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Django Reinhardt was one of the first tenor saxophone soloists in jazz
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False, Guitar
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Louis Armstrong is central to the history of jazz in part because of his concept of swing
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True
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Comping" in jazz means comparing your approach to rhythm to the others in the band
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False
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Minstrelsy was a direct predecessor to Vaudeville
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True
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Tin Pan Alley was a street in the Storyville district of New Orleans
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False
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he Harlem Renaissance was associated with the "New Negro" artistic movement
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True
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In New Orleans style, the trombone part is called the .....
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Tailgate
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The Country Blues were often accompanied by .....
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Guitar
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Coleman Hawkins was a ........... player who was a member of the ............... Orchestra
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Jazz Saxophone, Fletcher Henderson
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Polyrhythm can best be described as
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Multiple layers of rhythm
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The best known composer of Ragtime was .....
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Scott Joplin
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The first significant jazz musician was
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Buddy Bolden
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March, or Ragtime form is .................... form
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AABBACCDD
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.................. is the characteristic of the spiritual that most influences jazz
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Call and Response
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............. was an arranger with Fletcher Henderson
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Don Redman
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Jazz is both an ..... form and a ....... music.
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art, Popular
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Louis Armstrong moved from New Orleans when ............. hired him in Chicago.
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King Oliver
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The use of brass and reed instruments in jazz was an example of a ....... influence.
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European
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The Great Migration was when African Americans moved to ........ industrial cities for work
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Northern
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African American influences in jazz included polyrhythm and call and response
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True
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The first group to make a jazz record in 1917 was the .....................
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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Vaudeville or Classic Blues was often accompanied by ............
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Piano
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Sidney Bechet played two instruments, the........... and .................
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Clarinet and Saxophone
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Duke Ellington was both a .......... piano player(early) and a ........................
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Stride, Composer
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Paul Whiteman hired jazz musicians to play with his orchestra, including ...................(He never hired African American musician
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Bix Beiderbeck
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Duke Ellington created a new "Jungle" style by writing arrangements to be played at the ........................
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Cotton Club
