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Generic term for jazz and much popular music of the mid-thirties through the mid-forties.
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Swing
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All band members in one section play the same material
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Soli
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Why is collective improvisation seldom used by a big band?
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b/c it would be unintelligible
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Arrangers, Fletcher Henderson and Edgar Simpson were responsible for...
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Benny Goodman sound
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He studied law at Crane College in Chicago
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Cab Calloway
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Jimmie Lunceford
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taught high school music in Memphis, started his professional band with student musicians
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A Tisket, A Tasket...
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was performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb orchestra
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Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey played what instruments?
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Tommy- trombone
Jimmy- clarinet |
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Fletcher Henderson, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Christian were all hired by...
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Benny Goodman
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Jazz violinist, Joe Kennedy Jr. used When Lights Are Low as the theme music for the VT jazz band. This ballad was composed by Kennedy's cousin...
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Benny Carter
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The Benny Goodman Sextet recorded Flying Home with Charlie Christian on guitar. Who introduced Christian to Goodman?
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John Hammond
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The first extended drum solo in jazz occurred in Sing Sing Sing and was played by...
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Gene Krupa
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Art Tatum quotes Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor at the end of this composition:
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Get Happy
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Grove's dictionary of jazz says that he may be the finest jazz trombonists of all time
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Jack Teagarden
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"Changes," or chord changes used in Bebop are based on...
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the chord changes based on Gershwin's I Got Rhythm
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Composer of Night in Tunisia
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Dizzy Gillepsie
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Charlie Parker's KoKo is based on:
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Cherokee by Ray Noble
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Founded a school of jazz in NYC in 1951
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Lennie Tristano
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What is a flugelhorn?
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brass instrument in the same key and pitch as the cornet and trumpet but with a much larger conical bore, dark-mellow sound
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"Prez" Who?
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Lester Young
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What instrument did Lester Young play?
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tenor sax
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This pianists style became known as "comping"
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Count Basie
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Miles Davis' Boplicity belong to which musical style?
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modal
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George Gershwin's, Summertime from Porgy and Bess, contain, in addition to the regular instruments, the following classical/ orchestral instruments. (5)
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bass, clarinet, flutes, French horn, tuba
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Hard bop's most prolific composer was..
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Fats Navarro
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The most popular tenor saxophonists of the 1950s were
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Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins
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Who successfully coined the term, "Third Stream" ?
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Gunther Schuller
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Who was Irving Mills?
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Duke Ellington's manager
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Ellington's final composition (incomplete) was...
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Queenie Pie
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Coltrane was called "anti-jazz" by
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Leonard Feather
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Tutti- definition
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all brass and reed sections play together to create a solid unified texture
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Big band structure (4 things)
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Rhythm, Sax, Trombone, Trumpet
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Big band rhythm section
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has no particular leader
less restricted |
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Big band interplay
type place? |
call and response
no place for jazz musicians who could only improvise/ early jazz |
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Cab Calloway's trademark song
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Minnie the Moocher
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Cab Calloways' books (2)
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Hepsters dictionary
Swingformation Bureau |
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Who was offered a contract to play basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters?
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Cab Calloway
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St. James Infirmary---
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Cab Calloway
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Home of the Happy Feet--
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Savoy Ball Room
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Heebie Jeebies---
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Chick Webb
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Created the 1930's style for Big Band drumming
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Chick Webb
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers
famous song similar to? type |
Chant of the Weed
Similar to Henderson Co-op= no leader |
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William Mckinney instrument
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drums
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Well, Git It, who?
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Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
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In the Mood, who?
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Glenn Miller's biggest hit
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42 piece Army Air Force band.
formed by when? |
Glenn Miller
WWII |
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Who "discovered a whole new world" when he headed Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok and Ravel?
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Artie Shaw
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What band hired Billie Holiday?
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the Artie Shaw Band
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Begin the Beguine
played by? written by? |
Artie Shaw Band
Cole Porter |
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King of the Clarinet, who?
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Artie Shaw
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