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History of Jazz (Swing Quiz)

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Section review to help prep for history of jazz exams.
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Question 1

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Was Swing (or "big band era") the most popular style in jazz history?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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What was the preferred instrumentation for swing music?
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  • Combo
  • Big Bands
  • Soloists

Question 3

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Banjos, guitars, and flutes were common in swing?
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Bass appeared more often in swing?
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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High-hat cymbals WERE NOT used more in swing?
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Collective improvisation was ________ in swing.
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  • common
  • included
  • rare

Question 7

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Swing music (rhythmic) feeling was smoother?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Swing musicians showed a higher level of instrumental proficiency in terms of _______.
Answer
  • speed
  • agility
  • tone control
  • playing in tune
  • All of above

Question 9

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How many musicians would a big bang include?
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  • 5
  • 8
  • 11
  • 10 or >

Question 10

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Are saxophones strictly brass instruments?
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  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Sax section was often called the "________".
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  • woodwinds
  • rythm
  • reed section

Question 12

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The alto and tenor saxophones were rarely used saxes.
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  • True
  • False

Question 13

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Saxophonists usually stick with one instrument throughout a big band performance.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Size of trumpet section varied from _____ to _____ players. Trombone section ranged from _____ to ____ players.
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  • 2 to 5 1 to 5
  • 3 to 7 1 to 4

Question 15

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Big bands relied on written arrangements; it was not necessary for combo groups.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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What was the general setup of a big band performance?
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  • Melodies played by the entire band in unison or harmony, then jazz improv with both rhythm section and finally riffs.
  • Jazz improv with both rhythm section, riffs, and finally melodies.

Question 17

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Did rhythm section contain banjo, cello, and piano?
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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Although pianist in rhythm section played melodies ... not just chords and embellishments ... and played in stride style ... COMPING was not the COMMON accompaniment style during the SWING ERA.
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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Guitar and bass were usually assigned timekeeping. Guitarist strummed one chord on each beat (rhythm guitar style). Bassist played a note on the first and third of every four beats (two-beat style) or every beat (walking style).
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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band drummers tended not to play new or provacative rhythms that ran counter to the horn lines.
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  • True
  • False

Question 21

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What are some facts about Roy Eldridge?
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  • Did not die young
  • He was a trumpeter
  • Advanced improvisers of the swing era, linked between swing and modern jazz.
  • Style of playing was fiery and aggressive.
  • Demonstrated that long, sinewy lines were possible on trumpet. These, though easy to execute on saxophone, do not lend themselves to the mechanics of the trumpet.
  • All of the above!

Question 22

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What are some facts about Coleman Hawkins?
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  • Did not die young.
  • Being a jazz tenor saxophonist.
  • He made the saxophone famous(brand), being the most popular instruments in jazz.
  • He is a harmonic improviser rather than a melodic improviser.
  • All of the above!

Question 23

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What are some facts about Count Basie?
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  • Did not die young.
  • Long time Band Leader (1937-unitl death)
  • Stride style pianist
  • He led the first rhythm section in jazz history
  • Rhythm swung smooth and relaxed way.
  • All of the above!

Question 24

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Count Basie Rhythm included: Basie (Himself, Pianist) Freddie Green (Rhythm guitar) Walter Page (string bass) Jo Jones (drums)
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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Comping is playing piano by accompanying chords as accents behind the soloist.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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Was Count Basie and Lester Young famous for Kansas City Style?
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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Kansas City Style arrangements were based on short musical riffs that were repeated again and again.
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Head Arrangements are spontaneously created riffs during a performance, learned by ear, and kept in the heads of players. This is basics of Kansas City riff band Style.
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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What are some facts about Lester Young?
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  • Did not die young
  • Tenor Saxophone player
  • NN was "Pres or Prez"
  • Style of playing can be modeled as being modern jazz or cool jazz.
  • Trumpeters and guitarists were inspired by the way he improv.
  • One of the five most influential saxophone players in jazz history.
  • Young offered a clear alternative to the heavy tone, fast vibrato, and complicated style of Coleman Hawkins.
  • All of the above!

Question 30

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What are some facts about Billie Holiday?
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  • Died Early @ 44 yrs. old
  • NN was "Lady Day"
  • Not really a blues singer----more on pop and show tunes.
  • Has toured with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie.
  • All of the above!

Question 31

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What are some facts about Ella Fitzgerald?
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  • Did not die young
  • Most outstanding nonoperatic singer of the 20th century.
  • Master of swing eighth notes and perfect timing of syncopation gave her singing rhythmic effect---hornmen.
  • Her first number one single was "A-Tisket-A-Tasket" with the Chick Webb Band.
  • Her tone spanned the unusually wide range of 3 and a half octaves.
  • Not melodramatic when it comes to her singing, she's cheerful.
  • Scat Singer.
  • She was able to imitate instrument tunes using her voice.
  • All of the above!

Question 32

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What are some facts about Art Tatum?
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  • Died early, at 46 yrs. old
  • Pianist
  • Stride style
  • Master at spontaneously adding and changing chords during his performance of pop tunes (this is called Substitution).
  • All of the above!

Question 33

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What are some facts about Benny Goodman?
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  • Did not die young
  • Bandleader
  • Clarinet player
  • All of the above!

Question 34

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Are all these true about Duke Ellington? Did not die young Bandleader, pianist, and composer Ellington's group was the most stable and longest-lived big band in jazz history. Single most creative and prolific composer arranger in jazz history. Wrote more than 2000 compositions and many arrangements and rearrangements. Had recordd more than any other group. Piano tunes were stride style Wrote 100s of instrumentals. Some of them paint musical portraits of famous personalities. Others paint musical pictures of places. Widely acclaimed for having taken jazz into the format of "extended works" "voicing across sections of the band" "voicing across sections of the band"
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 35

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What was important for big bands?
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  • Provide dance music.
  • Elabrate costumes
  • Showy staging
  • Having several singers
  • All of the above!
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