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Part I. Go to the given web site address, click on the red arrow ‘play’ button, and listen and enjoy this article about Louis Armstrong:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4558350/louis-armstrong-the-complete-hot-five-hot-seven-recordings

Take notes as you listen, and be prepared to answer these questions on quiz #1 and Test #1:

1. The recording that begins this interview is a solo trumpet ‘cadenza’ from what famous jazz recording?

2. What trumpet player recorded it?

3. What was the name of the group that Armstrong used for these later 1920’s recordings?

4. What is the name of the jazz vocal technique Armstrong uses on the recording of “Hotter ThanThat”?

5. It is stated that Armstrong “created the art of the jazz solo”. How do the interviewers describe this accomplishment?

Part II. Go to the given web site address, click on the red arrow ‘play’ button, and listen and enjoy this article about Bessie Smith:

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/28/402850016/how-bessie-smith-ushered-in-the-jazz-age

Take notes as you listen, and be prepared to answer these questions on quiz #1 and Test #1:

1. Fill in the blank: Bessie Smith was known as the _____ of the blues.

2. Fill in the blanks from the interview: “someone asked the question, "what's the difference between gospel and blues?" I think it's a simple word. It's the simple ____ of the word "God" to "baby" or "sweetheart" or something like that. It's the same sound, the same feel. It's that same ____".

3. Fill in the blanks from the interview: “When you think of jazz, certain words like sophistication, _______come to mind. Blues is really sort of the _________, I mean because you can't have jazz without blues, no matter how many intellectuals will try to make that argument. You cannot have jazz without _____, so to me the big difference between jazz and blues is really kind of hard to say verbally, but you know it when you hear it and you know it when you feel it. There's more things in jazz, whereas blues is sort of a raw ______.

4. It is stated that Bessie Smith’s legacy is that she influenced all blues and jazz singers after her. What later jazz singer is used in this article’s recordings to illustrate this example?