History of Jazz Chapter 4 Flashcards

New Orleans jazz primarily featured which of the following musical textures?

Nineteenth-century New Orleans shows the influence of which cultures?

Which of the following was true of the social position of Uptown Negroes in nineteenth-century New Orleans?

Who led the Onward Brass Band, a group that blended Creole sophistication with improvisational artistry?

Which aspect of Buddy Bolden's playing did contemporary observers note most often?

Buddy Bolden's repertoire demonstrates what characteristic of professional musicians of the period?

Which instruments are included in the front line of a New Orleans jazz band?

What is the trumpet or cornet's role in the New Orleans jazz band?

The most distinctive feature of New Orleans jazz is:

A short solo improvisation at the end of a phrase in New Orleans jazz is called:

What was the form of most New Orleans jazz compositions?

All of the following factors were causes of the Great Migration:

Which best describes Freddie Keppard's historical importance?

What was the instrumentation of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?

The short, detached articulation prominent at the beginning of 'Dixie Jass Band One-Step' is referred to as:

Why are Jelly Roll Morton's 1923 recording sessions with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings significant?

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers recordings are significant because they:

What was unusual about the front line of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band?

In acoustic recordings made at Gennett studios, how was the relative volume of the instruments adjusted?

Sidney Bechet is responsible for establishing this instrument as a jazz instrument:

Sidney Bechet spent a large part of his career, and became a beloved national figure, in which country?

From its earliest days, jazz was embraced across America.

In nineteenth-century America, people were legally considered black if their heritage included a 'single drop' of black blood.

The majority of Uptown Negroes could not read music.

Because of Jim Crow laws, Creoles of Color and Uptown Negroes remained segregated from each other well into the twentieth century.

Buddy Bolden is widely considered the first jazz musician to develop a distinct personal style.

The trombonist in a New Orleans jazz band usually plays fewer notes than the clarinetist.

New Orleans style jazz provided many opportunities for musicians to change the form of a composition through improvisation.

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band helped to popularize jazz in Europe.

Other than the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, there were no significant white performers in the New Orleans jazz tradition.

Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz.

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band favored collective improvisation over soloistic features.

As was common at the time, Gennett Records marketed the recordings of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band to a black audience as race records.

A system of racial ___________ was legalized through the 1894 Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v.Ferguson.

At the turn of the twentieth century, most New Orleans Creoles lived in the _____________.

____________, a zone of New Orleans in which prostitution was legal until 1917, was an area where many elements of jazz style originated.

The clarinetist's role in a New Orleans jazz band is to perform a ____________, an active improvised accompaniment to the main trumpet melody.

The largest internal relocation of people in the history of the United States was known as _________________________.

King Oliver used a wide range of ________ to vary the timbre of his trumpet.

Sidney Bechet was known as a virtuoso of the _______ saxophone, an instrument that features a straight bell rather than the curved bell of larger saxophones.

Early jazz trumpeter who lost the opportunity to record the first jazz record

Regarded as the first great jazz composer

Bandleader at Chicago's Lincoln Gardens

Never-recorded trumpeter who is said to have originated jazz style

Established the soprano saxophone as a jazz instrument