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- Name two musical elements from Africa.
- African drum dances (syncopation), polyrhythmic, single-line melodies
- Name one way jazz was spread before 1900.
- Blacks suffered from segregation so they worked playing music in bars, clubs, and brothels. Played as touring musicians in vaudeville shows.
- Who was known as the \"first jazzer?\"
- Buddy Bolden
- Who made the first jazz recording?
- The Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Who was the first trumpeter to use horn mutes?
- King Oliver
- Name two musicians who were a \"dynamic duo\" in 20s big band?
- Jimmy Blanton and Ben Webster
- What was the first musician to put jazz on paper?
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Who was known as the "greatest composer of all time?"
- peanuts hucko
- Name the bassist who redefined the jazz bass?
- Jimmy Blanton
- What event marked the end of the swing era?
- what! swing never ended! it rules!
- Name two clarinetists who had a rivalry in the swing era.
- Bennie Goodman and Artie Shaw
- What venue in New York was the birthplace of bop?
- 52nd Street, \"Swing Street\" Cotton Club
- Why was bop not considered commercially viable?
- It was too fast, you couldn\'t dance to it.
- Name the fathers of bop.
- Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Art Tatum, Charlie Christian
- Name two characteristics of cool jazz.
- Lyrical melody, small band, more romantic, airy
- Name the album that helped give birth to the cool movement.
- The Birth of the Cool (comment) lol
- Name two prominent musicians of the cool era
- Miles Davis, Lenny Tristano, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker
- Name the members of the best rhythm section in hard bop.
- Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones
- What record label is most associated with the hard bop movement?
- Blue Note Records
- Name the primary characteristic of modal jazz.
- The music flows horizontally rather than vertically- it\'s stagnant.
- Which album is still considered one of the best selling of all time?
- Kind of Blue
- Name the historical movement most associated with the free jazz movement.
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Name two leading figures of the free jazz movement.
- Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor
- Name three prominent fusion groups.
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock\'s Headhunters, Weather Report