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Famous Pianists and the Blues Innovation & Fame Sing like RoyaltyLeaders & Politics In the Mood for some local improvisers?

Question What instrument is RAGTIME most frequently played on?

Answer 1 – 10 Piano

Question The melodies in RAGTIME are heavily ___________________?

Answer 1 – 20 Syncopated

Question Name the composer who was the first to write the BLUES down as a composition to be performed in a concert setting (St. Louis, Kansas City, and Memphis Blues were all his compositions)

Answer 1 – 30 W.C. Handy

Question We consider DIXIELAND to be early jazz. What city does DIXIELAND originate from?

Answer 1 – 40 New Orleans, LA

Question Name the DIXIELAND pianist from New Orleans that considered himself the inventor of Jazz.

Answer 1 – 50 Jelly Roll Morton

Question Who was the bandleader whose band premiered Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin?

Answer 2 – 10 Paul Whiteman

Question What was the Big-Band leader who was nicknamed “The King of Swing”?

Answer 2 – 20 Benny Goodman

Question What great TRUMPETER was a creative force in the propagation of Bebop in the 1940’s?

Answer 2 – 30 Dizzy Gillespie

Question Name the most famous performer and composer of RAGTIME music.

Answer 2 – 40 Scott Joplin

Question Name two female BLUES vocalists that achieved fame in the early part of the 20 th century.

Answer 2 – 50 Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey

Question Which BLUES vocalist was named the Empress of the Blues?

Answer 3 – 10 Bessie Smith

Question Which BLUES vocalist was seen in an early music video singing SAINT LOUIS BLUES?

Answer 3 – 20 Bessie Smith

Question Where was DIXIELAND Trumpeter Louis Armstrong Born?

Answer 3 – 30 New Orleans, LA

Question Whose band did Louis Armstrong join where he gained fame as a soloist?

Answer 3 – 40 King Oliver

Question What style of singing did Louis Armstrong create to imitate instruments with his voice (made most popular on his recording of Heebie Jeebies)?

Answer 3 – 50 Scat

Question What song recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band was the first ‘jazz’ song recorded?

Answer 4 – 10 Livery Stable Blues

Question What post-Civil War period was the BLUES born from, and segregation originated.

Answer 4 – 20 Reconstruction

Question What great big-band leader featured a skinny, young Italian singer named Frank Sinatra?

Answer 4 – 30 Frank Sinatra

Question Name the big-band composer who was famous for his elegant style, and colorful writing (he often used colors in the titles of his compositions).

Answer 4 – 40 Duke Ellington

Question Name the Big-Band leader who played trombone and died, choking in his sleep at age 51.

Answer 4 – 50 Tommy Dorsey

Question Which popular Big-Band leader and his orchestra performed In the Mood?

Answer 5 – 10 Glen Miller

Question In the late 1940’s, what style of Jazz developed in New York to break away from the commercial stronghold on swing that was focused on improvisation?

Answer 5 – 20 Be-Bop

Question Name the trumpet player famous for performing and composing Be-Bop, whose trumpet was at a forty-five degree angle

Answer 5 – 30 Dizzy Gillespie

Question Name the great saxophonist from Kansas City, MO that was a virtuosic and innovative performer of be-bop in the 1950’s, but died early due to his substance abuse problems

Answer 5 – 40 Charlie Parker

Question What trumpet player from East St. Louis, Illinois was the pioneer of ‘Cool Jazz’ and frequently performed with a harmon mute (had earlier performed with Charlie Parker)?

Answer 5 – 50 Miles Davis