What was Minton’s Playhouse? |
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A jazz club on the first floor of the Cecil Hotel |
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What were the attributes of the Modern Jazz Quartet? |
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Which regional big band style was dominated by riffs rather than elaborately written out arrangements? |
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How did Charlie Christian change the role of jazz guitar? |
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He was one of the first to use it as a solo instrument |
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Art Tatum was certainly a virtuoso pianist, but he made a unique contribution to jazz players of all instruments. What was this contribution? |
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He was a pioneer of “substitute chords”: more complex chords which are substituted for, or added to, the original chords of a tune |
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“The Prez” was a nickname for which great jazz tenor player? |
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Jazz is a fusion of which African and European elements? |
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European harmonies and African rhythms |
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How many horns usually made up a New Orleans jazz band “front line”? |
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Three melody instuments of clarinet, trumpet/cornet, and trombone |
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Ast the 1920’s progressed and stars such as Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke emerged, how did the presentation of jazz change? |
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These players began to change the characteristic polyphonic texture of New Orleans into a soloist-led music. |
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How did the creation of Storyville actually help speed along the evolution of jazz? |
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It brought together the classically trained “Creoles of color” with black musicians who had learned their music by ear, forcing both groups to learn new styles of playing. |
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