Jazz Review

Louis Jordan was a famous artist of this "pre-rock and roll" style of music.

Also known as the, "King of Swing", this band leader hit it big with "Sing, Sing, Sing".

Which technology helped Jazz music become popular in the 1940's?

Saxophonist that released the prolific album Giant Steps?

"Take the A Train"  is one of this jazz piano player/ band leaders most famous tunes.

Style of softer jazz music that did not include a piano & was mainly played by white musicians.

Jazz fusion includes the following musical genres, except?

This term refers to songs written for broadway musicals and motion pictures from 1920-1960?

Ture or False, a PENTATONIC scale has only 5 notes?

Popular night clubs during Prohibition were called?

A "riff" is also known as a?

Charles Mingus' famous "Bop" chart is called?

All of the following cities were major centers for jazz music, except?

Which of the following composer was not a Dixieland composer?

Which syllable is used to perform the following stylistic marking?

Which Jazz trumpeter died at the age of 26 on his way to a gig in Chicago?

This "Rag Time" classic by Scott Joplin sold over 1 million copies.

Harry Olsin's 1934 development of the microphone led to more jazz ______________?

This saxophonist was known as the "King of the Jukebox".

This "mode" begins on the Dominant or 5th scale degree in any given key.

Horace Silver pioneered this style of jazz that combines R&B, Be-Bop, & Gospel.

Which syllable is used to perform the following stylistic marking?

Which syllable is used to perform the following stylistic marking?

Blues was not only a style of music but also a mind set of Latin Americans in the early 1900's.

In 1958, which were the first jazz artists to win Grammy Awards?

Passed in 1920, the 18th Amendment is more commonly known as?

The 18th Amendment to the constitute was passed by congress in 1920. What is that Amendment?

This drummer composed his "Freedom Now Suite" in support of the Civil Rights Movement.

Come Fly With Me, Cheek to Cheek, & Stormy Weather were all hits by this "triple threat".

The "blues notes" of a scale are the flat 3, flat 5 and flat 7?

The name of the game is?

All of the following were popular during the "Roaring 20's" except?

True or False, the Savoy was the most popular jazz club in New Orleans in the 1930's?

An early 1900's style that combined Blues, Ragtime & New Orleans Brass Band sounds.

Using your embouchure to slightly "dip" the pitch is also known as a?

This "mode" begins on the Mediant or 3rd scale degree in any given key.

This trumpet player had the most imitated sound and was the pioneer of Jazz Fusion.

Playing a note and then sliding the pitch down slowly through a scale is called a?