Transcript powerpoint jeopardy

Famous Pianists
and the Blues
Innovation &
Fame
Sing like Royalty
Leaders & Politics
In the Mood for
some local
improvisers?
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Question 1 - 10
• What instrument is RAGTIME most
frequently played on?
Answer 1 – 10
• Piano
Question 1 - 20
• The melodies in RAGTIME are heavily
___________________?
Answer 1 – 20
• Syncopated
Question 1 - 30
• 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 1 - 40
• We consider DIXIELAND to be early jazz.
What city does DIXIELAND originate from?
Answer 1 – 40
• New Orleans, LA
Question 1 - 50
• Name the DIXIELAND pianist from New
Orleans that considered himself the inventor
of Jazz.
Answer 1 – 50
• Jelly Roll Morton
Question 2 - 10
• Who was the bandleader whose band
premiered Rhapsody in Blue by George
Gershwin?
Answer 2 – 10
• Paul Whiteman
Question 2 - 20
• What was the Big-Band leader who was
nicknamed “The King of Swing”?
Answer 2 – 20
• Benny Goodman
Question 2 - 30
• What great TRUMPETER was a creative force
in the propagation of Bebop in the 1940’s?
Answer 2 – 30
• Dizzy Gillespie
Question 2 - 40
• Name the most famous performer and
composer of RAGTIME music.
Answer 2 – 40
• Scott Joplin
Question 2 - 50
• Name two female BLUES vocalists that
achieved fame in the early part of the 20th
century.
Answer 2 – 50
• Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey
Question 3 - 10
• Which BLUES vocalist was named the
Empress of the Blues?
Answer 3 – 10
• Bessie Smith
Question 3 - 20
• Which BLUES vocalist was seen in an early
music video singing SAINT LOUIS BLUES?
Answer 3 – 20
• Bessie Smith
Question 3 - 30
• Where was DIXIELAND Trumpeter Louis
Armstrong Born?
Answer 3 – 30
• New Orleans, LA
Question 3 - 40
• Whose band did Louis Armstrong join where
he gained fame as a soloist?
Answer 3 – 40
• King Oliver
Question 3 - 50
• 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 4- 10
• What song recorded by the Original Dixieland
Jass Band was the first ‘jazz’ song recorded?
Answer 4 – 10
• Livery Stable Blues
Question 4 - 20
• What post-Civil War period was the BLUES
born from, and segregation originated.
Answer 4 – 20
• Reconstruction
Question 4 - 30
• What great big-band leader featured a
skinny, young Italian singer named Frank
Sinatra?
Answer 4 – 30
• Frank Sinatra
Question 4 - 40
• 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 4 - 50
• Name the Big-Band leader who played
trombone and died, choking in his sleep at
age 51.
Answer 4 – 50
• Tommy Dorsey
Question 5 - 10
• Which popular Big-Band leader and his
orchestra performed In the Mood?
Answer 5 – 10
• Glen Miller
Question 5 - 20
• 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 5 - 30
• 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 5 - 40
• 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 5 - 50
• 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