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Jazz Final
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- 1What does MJQ stand for?Modern Jazz Quartet
- 2* What famous pianist's primary trademark was an innovative use of irregular meters as 5/4 and 9/4? What famous saxophone player played with him?Bru Beck, Paul Dezmend
- 3What famous drummer pushed his Jazz Messengers to the pinnacle of hard bop for more than three decades?Art Blakey
- 4Name a trumpet player and a sax player of the hard bop style.Clifford Brown, Sunny Rollins
- 5_____ _____ set a new standard for jazz guitar and innovated a new style of soloing, combining single- not phrases, octaves, etc. he became a 1960's pop star.Wes Montgomery
- 6* After Duke Ellington, _____ ____ is the most widely performed of all jazz composers. Name a tune of hisThelonious Monk: Blue Monk
- 7What famous bass player wrote grand tone poems, suites, jazz standards, parodies, and threnodies while leading his cutting- edge Jazz WorkshopCharles Mingous
- 8What famous arranger/ pianist achieved national recognition with Miles Davis for the groundbreaking 1957 album Miles Ahead?Gil Evens
- 9Who's the famous alto saxophonist who was a former school teacher in Florida?Cannonball Adderly
- 10* The book states: "no one looms larger in the postwar era, in part because no one had a great capacity for change." Who are they talking about?Miles Davis
- 11Name on of Miles Davis's famous pieces."So what"
- 12Later in Miles Davis's career he liked to use a _____ muteHarmon
- 13What is the title of one of the best- selling jazz albums of all time? Kind of _____blue
- 14Which artist forged an expressionistic way of improvising that helped to instigate the avaunt-garde movement and led a classic quartet in the 1960's? He was a tenor sax player. Name one of his tonesOrnet Coleman, "Lonely Women"
- 15What is an infinitesimal fraction of a half stepMicro Tone
- 16What pianist experimented with free jazz?Taylor Seseal
- 17Name a saxaphonist who is listed in the book under free jazzEric Dolphy
- 18* what is fusion?2 elements of music mixed together
- 19What type of organ did Jimmy Smith play?Hammond
- 20Name three singers mentioned in Chapter 16Frank Sinatra, King Cole, Sara Von
- 21Name an instrument used in Latin JazzCongos
- 22In 1063, this saxophonist recorded with the Brazilians who created boos nova. Who was he?Stan Getz
- 23In the book, what singer is listed under "funk"?James
- 24The book states, "The breakthrough toward fusion happened only when it had captured the attention of the biggest name in jazz ____ _____Miles Davis
- 25Besides Miles Davis name two "fusion" artists or groupsWeather report, Patt Mathenee
- 26Who's the artist mentioned under Smooth Jazz?Kenny G
- 27_____ ______ wrote music for every conceivable ensemble and played every conceivable saxophone, including the giant contrabass.Anthony Braxton
- 28____ ___, trumpet player, composer, and activist, helped to create the jazz wing at Lincoln Center, emphasizing jazz's swing tradition and often performing with major figures from earlier eras.Wynton Marsalis
- 29With the arrival of bebop, it was suddenly an _______ musicIntroverted
- 30* Name three bebop musiciansDizzy, Bird, Bud Powell
- 31T or F: in bebop, tempos were usually slow.False
- 32T or F: bebop was famous for its complex, dissonant harmonies.True
- 33Name the most famous bebop saxophone player. Name the type of saxophone he playedCharlie Parker, alto saxaphone
- 34* The intellectual force behind bebop was the trumpet player___Dizzy Gillespie
- 35T or F: The term bebop came from referring to the new rhythmic style through scat syllablesTrue
- 36Name a bebop piece."CoCo"
- 37Name a bebop pianistBud Powell
- 38*What famous tenor saxophonist is on the cover of your text?Dexter Gordon
- 39Norman Granz is best known for his long- term fight to have jazz performed in ______ ______Concert Halls
- 40* What type of jazz is usually associated with a light, laid- back, reticent quality?Cool Jazz
- 41What's another name for Cool JazzWest Coast Jazz
- 42Name three musicians associated with this style?Miles Davis, Jerry Muligan, Chet Baker
- 43Name a famous baritone saxophonist. What trumpet player played with himJerry Muligan, Chet Baker
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