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LSU Jazz History 2000
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03/15/2012

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Bix wanted to be remembered for his composition entitled?
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In a mist
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First major drum set soloist was?
Definition
Gene krupa
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Important night club in the late 1920s feathered black entertainers and white audiences
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Cotton Club
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Hell Hound on my trail is a typical blues we have heard because?
Definition
His phrases are unmeasured
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Who played at the famous club in herlem
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Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington's jungle sounds because of
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"bubber" miley and his plunder mute
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Slaves permitted to congregate and dance in a place called
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Congo Square
Term
Feature white performers
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Minstrel Shows
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Brubeck is associated with which musical concept
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mixed meters
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MJQ has as its instruments
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now horn players
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Monk used which of the following compositional devices
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Rhythmic development
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Process of keeping the melody intact but changing underlying harmonies
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reharmonization
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Concept of reharmonization
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art tatum
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Bakers solo style can be described as
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contrapuntal with Gerry mulligan
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Monk's small cell development, taking a few notes and doing something interesting
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Straight no chase
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Nonet =
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9 players
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Birth of cool tune boplicity included
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french horn and tuba
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Lester young was influential on the saxophonists in which period of jazz
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cool jazz
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Percussionist chano pozo was heard on
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Cubanobe Cubanobop
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Blue rondo is a la turk example of
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cross rhythm
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2 ways to count the pulse in blue rondo a la turk
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super metric
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Ragtime considered
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piano genre
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Jumpin at the woodside
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is a Riff based composition
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Swing period due to addition of Freddie Green and walter page
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Stride disappeared
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Django's group to be unidiomatic
Definition
Violin
Term
Development of melodic chromaticism
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bebop
Term
Most important race record label
Definition
Okeh
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First outstanding European jazz
Definition
Django
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More than on version of a song
Definition
alternative takes
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Christian was one of the first musicians to make use of
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amplification
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One characteristic of bebop
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Melodic chromaticism
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Birdlane bluc in New York name after
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Charlie Parker
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Guitarist incorporated a violin
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Django
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Bebop players wrote new tunes with new titles based on the existing chord changed of popular songs for copyright reasons
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true
Term
Charlie parker had an addictive personality
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true
Term
Art tatum group was called the quintette de hot club du france
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false
Term
Bebop musicians wanted to move from being artist to successful, well-paid entertainers
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false
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The night priest of bop, monk, played through a combination of clusters, phrasing, and pedaling as if he could bend notes
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true
Term
Duke Ellington voiced across sections of the band
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true
Term
Ellington limited himself to writing one version of each piece
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false
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Ellington's first band was called the Washingtonians
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True
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Armstrong and his red hot peppers were in direct competition with joe "king" oliver's band
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false
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Django was the first guitarist to use amplification
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false
Term
Armstrong was investigated by FBI in selma
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false
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Count Basie played at the cotton club in the late 1920's
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false
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Bix played with an exuberant, exciting sounds and approached to the music
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false
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Standard group of the bebop period was the big band, 5 saxes, 3-4 trombones, 3-4 trumpets and 4 rhythms
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false
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Monk was the first jazz musician to introduce afro Cuban
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false
Term
Changing melody and title didn't change chords is illegal because of copyrights
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false
Term
Concert for Cooties written for
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Cootie Williams
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Bix is important as the first
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white jazz musician
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Bass line of quarter notes played on the pulse is called
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walking bass line
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Concept known as the golden section is base on a sequence of numbers
Definition
the fibonaccie series
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Ragtime is considered to be a genre that features
Definition
paino
Term
AABBACCDD is an example of the
Definition
military march/ragtime
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What were Bix Beiderbeckes three periods?
Definition
Wolverines with Hoagy Carmichael
Frankie Trumbauer
Paul Whiteman
Term
What doesn't belong in bebop?
Definition
bass vs. reed
Term
Frankie Trambaur belongs to which period?
Definition
Early Jazz
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Who wrote I Got Rhythm
Definition
George Gershwin
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What song is an example of golden section
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Warm Valley
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Ragtime does not
Definition
Swing
Term
Term applied between 1921-1942 to recordings made especially for African American listeners
Definition
race records
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Who wrote "Black Bottom Stomp? Where was it recorded?
Definition
Red Hot Peppers
Chicago
Term
The swing period was based heavily on?
Definition
dance music
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Swing was played on all four beats instead of
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1&3
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Who were important soloist in Duke Ellingtons band?
Definition
Bubber Miley - trumpet
Cootie Williams - trumpet
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What is the golden mean?
Definition
0.618
Term
The first racially integrated band
Definition
Benny Goodman quartet
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Which guitarist took long solo lines
Definition
Charlie Christian
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Who introduced the violin to jazz? How many fingers did he play with?
Definition
Django
2
Term
Slam Stewert played
Definition
solo style
Term
What is a Tritone substation?
Who made it?
Definition
you can take any dominate chord and substitute as long as its a tritone
Coleman Hawkins
Term
Clarinets were important in which period
Definition
swing
Term
Who was the first ad most important bop trumpeter?
Definition
Dizzy Gillespie
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What was Duke Ellingtons first band? What did the critics called it? why?
Definition
Washingtonians
Jungle Music
Bubber Miley use of the plunger mute and growl
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Who discovered the golden section?
Definition
Fibonacci
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Why was Benny Goodman and his quartet so important?
Definition
First racially integrated band
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