Music Technology
Masters of American Music – The Story of Jazz
Name ___________________________________________ Per. ______
1. Jazz is spontaneous. What does spontaneous mean?
2. Both classical musicians and jazz musicians must be virtuosos on their
instruments. Jazz players have to add ______________ and
_________ to the music through their improvisation.
3. Caribbean slaves brought their music to the city of ____________
where jazz was born.
4. Scott Joplin was the master of _____________________.
5. The “father of jazz trumpet,” __________________, was the first
trumpet player to be heard on records.
6. What affect did records have on jazz?
7. _______________________, in New York City, was the cultural
center for black Americans in the early 20th century.
8. Duke Ellington was a pianist, composer and bandleader. Jazz
musicians often stayed with his band for many years, unlike other
bands. What did this enable Ellington to do?
9. Name three European cities where jazz was popular in the mid-20th
century.
10.What were two other U.S. cities besides New Orleans that had
thriving jazz scenes in the 20th century?
11.The “King of Swing” was ____________________________.
12.Swing was the most important type of American music in the 1930’s
and 1940’s and many people would dance to the music. Explain the
“dance ‘til you drop” scenario of dance contests of this time period.
13.The _________________ was the home of the Battle of the Bands.
14.______________________ were called canaries or chirpers.
15.Name three famous female jazz singers.
16.Bebop combined ______ and new ideas to created a new type of jazz.
17.Charlie Parker, John Coltraine and Ornet Coleman all played this
instrument.
18.Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong all played this
instrument.
19.Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington and Lil Harmon all played this
instrument.
20.The 1950’s saw jazz change again and was known as the “birth of the
_________.”
21.Ornet Coleman and Charles Mingus created what was often
considered chaotic music known as ____________ jazz.
22.Jazz fusion combined rock and roll with jazz and often did what to the
instruments so that they could be heard more easily?
23. Compare classical music and musicians to jazz music and musicians. In
what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? Name as
many things as you can.
Draw lines matching the type of music with the decade it was most popular.
1940
mainstream jazz
1950
rock and roll
1960
cool jazz
1970
swing
1980
jazz fusion