need help for music history of jazz!!
lale
questions_chapter_11.docxQuestions Chapter 11
1.Who is the tenor saxophone player pictured at the beginning of the chapter, page 230?
2. What was the name of the after hours nightclub in Harlem that hosted the jam sessions where bebop evolved?
3. Who was “Klook-Mop” and how did he acquire that moniker?
4. Who was Teddy Hill?
5. What instrument did Art Blakey and Max Roach play?
6.Who was Jimmy Blanton and who did he play with?
7. One of the most impressive musicians to expand on Blanton’s innovations was of Choctaw and Cherokee ancestry: __________ .
8. The chromatic interval known to the middle-ages as the “devil in music”:_________.
9. Most of the African American bands toured in caravans of private cars or in rattle trap buses, but thanks to Irvine Mills, the bands of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway had more comfortable accommodations: _____________ .
10. He acquired the knick name “Bird” or “Yardbird” because of his love of chicken, but to his admirers it signified melodious beauty, elusiveness and quickness of flight: __________ .
11. The two worked side by side in 1942 with the big band of Earl Hines and again two years later with the band of Hines’ vocalist, Billy Eckstine: ______ .
12. Why was Diz fired by Cab Calloway?
13. Because of a recording strike by the AFofM, Bird’s first recording session as a leader didn’t take place until 1945. What was the result?
14. Bird’s feature number with Jay McShann and supposedly his favorite tune was a tune by British band leader Ray Noble that featured a very chromatic bridge. (It was also Charlie Barnet’s theme song.)
15. Charlie Parker once described bebop as the collision ……………. with _________ .
16. Who was Norman Granz?
17. He hired the great Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo and temed up with several Latin jazz figures setting the stage for salsa and Latin jazz.
18. The first bebop trombonist, he jettisoned his instrument’s limited rips and smears for a cool, angular, and unbelievable swift and fluid sound: _________ .
19. It was in Los Angeles in 1922 that the first jazz recording by an African American band was made by a band led by trombonist___________ .
