MT Problems and Study Guide
- Who is one of the few early recorders of American jazz field music?
- What musician is popular to have claimed to have "invented" jazz; namely combining Ragtime with a swing feel?
- What 4 elements are required for Jazz (Definition)?
- Describe what the debate between Hot vs. Cool was back in early swing?
- What Ben Webster played tenor sax on Duke Ellington's big band?
Study Guide
Be able to define or identify:
- Swing feel
- Blue notes
- Soloists and accompaniment in jazz
- AABA and 12 bar blues forms
- Traits of West African Music found in jazz (Polyrhythm, blue notes, Call And Response, improv)
- Congo Square
- Ragtime
- Stride (Piano)
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Collective improvisation
- Characteristics of 20s "early jazz"
- How's it different than Duke Ellington jazz? Namely collective improvisation, banjo, smaller bands, quieter drums (due to the recordings) ... are all things from earlier Ragtime
- Big Band
- Individual solos
- Call and Response
- Sections of a big band (brass, reeds, rhythm)
- Jungle Sound (see Bubbler Miley)
- Why did New Orleans be a great origin point for jazz? See Congo Square and Storyville, but the idea is that via the history of the place there was a lot of nativist, slave, and creole influence in the area, in equal parts. This along with the amount of partying created a huge mix of culture.
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