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Question #1
Which of the following is NOT the ideological schism between fans of different schools of jazz performance?
A.
swing fans shunning bebop as undanceable
B.
Dixieland fans shunning Louis Armstrong’s embrace of popular songs
C.
bebop fans shunning the 1960s avant-garde as noise
D.
hard bop fans shunning Dizzy Gillespie as a corporate sell-out
Question #2
When did the word “jazz” achieve its present-day historical meaning?
A.
in the 1920s, when New Orleans jazz began to spread worldwide
B.
in the late 1960s, when avant-garde improvisers began denying the influence of jazz
C.
during the Swing Era, when jazz was the nation’s popular music
D.
in the aftermath of bop, when the multiplicity of schools made a unifying term necessary
Question #3
All of the following were creative goals of the Miles Davis Nonet EXCEPT:
A.
warm timbres emphasizing each instrument’s middle range
B.
an insistent pulse for dancers
C.
a balance between composition and improvisation
D.
a more relaxed pace than bebop
Question #4
This arranger’s apartment on 55th Street in New York became an important meeting place for progressive musicians in the 1950s.
A.
Claude Thornhill
B.
Gunther Schuller
C.
John Lewis
D.
Gil Evans
Question #5
Which school of 1950s jazz emphasized heavy, dark timbres; featured tenor saxophone more often than alto; and used an assertive, hard-swinging drumming style?
A.
Cool Jazz
B.
Modal Jazz
C.
Hard Bop
D.
Third Stream
Question #6
Which 1948 change in audio technology enabled musicians to release records with around twenty minutes of music per side?
A.
33 ⅓-rpm microgroove LPs
B.
45-rpm records
C.
stereo recording
D.
wire recorders
Question #7
Which drummer’s band served as a training ground or showcase for many modern jazz musicians, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, Hank Mobley, and Cedar Walton?
A.
Kenny Clarke
B.
Max Roach
C.
Philly Jo Jones
D.
Art Blakey
Question #8
Cool jazz and hard bop are divergent schools that both developed from the shared practices of ________ of the 1940s.
A.
Dixieland Jazz
B.
Modal Jazz
C.
Be bop
D.
Swing
Question #9
Which pianist worked to bring together the baroque polyphony of J. S. Bach and the rhythmic feeling of the blues.
A.
Lennie Tristano
B.
Horace Silver
C.
Dave Brubeck
D.
John Lewis
Question #10
Forward-thinking jazz composers of the 1950s combined modern jazz style with all of the following traditional elements EXCEPT:
A.
standard jazz and pop themes
B.
short breaks
C.
classical chamber music forms
D.
stride piano
Question #11
Which is the most widely recorded of Thelonious Monk’s early compositions?
A.
Ruby, My Dear
B.
Epistrophy
C.
Hackensack
D.
’Round Midnight
Question #12
In 1957, Thelonious Monk played a long engagement at the Five Spot with which important tenor saxophonist?
A.
Sonny Rollins
B.
John Coltrane
C.
Charlie Rouse
D.
Ben Webster
Question #13
What was the political message of Charles Mingus’s “Fables of Faubus”?
A.
It was pro-communist.
B.
It criticized President Eisenhower.
C.
It was pro-women’s rights.
D.
It was pro-integration.
Question #14
Although he composed original works, Gil Evans is known primarily as:
A.
a music theorist
B.
a concert organizer
C.
a pianist
D.
an arranger
Question #15
All of the following are signature aspects of Gil Evans’s arrangements EXCEPT:
A.
sonorous slow-moving chords
B.
generous use of counterpoint
C.
a wide range of instrumental registers
D.
a close musical connection to the harmonies and textures of the original composition
Question #16
George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept forms the basis for which approach to jazz improvisation?
A.
modalism
B.
fusion
C.
bebop
D.
harmonic substitution
Question #17
Thelonious Monk mentored this younger pianist helping to connect him/her to the inner circle of bebop innovators.
A.
Bill Evans
B.
Mary Lou Williams
C.
Marian McPartland
D.
Bud Powell
Question #18
This Miles Davis album popularized the modal approach to jazz improvisation.
A.
Walkin'
B.
Kind of Blue
C.
Birth of the Cool
D.
Milestones
Question #19
Why is Miles Davis considered the most important figure in postwar jazz?
A.
He invented the theory behind modal jazz.
B.
He was the most vocal advocate of Civil Rights.
C.
He had a great capacity for change.
D.
He was the most consistent in his musical output over two decades.
Question #20
Throughout his career, Miles Davis relentlessly experimented with each of the following elements except:
A.
intonation
B.
instrumentation
C.
harmony
D.
melody
Question #21
At age nineteen Miles Davis was hired to record with which bebop figure?
A.
Max Roach
B.
Dizzy Gillespie
C.
Thelonious Monk
D.
Charlie Parker
Question #22
Which of the following is NOT the title of an album recorded by Miles Davis’s first great quintet and released on the independent Prestige label?
A.
Workin'
B.
Cookin'
C.
Relaxin'
D.
Jammin'
Question #23
Miles Davis and Gil Evans conceived of Miles Ahead as an extension and expansion of which earlier recording?
A.
Milestones
B.
The Birth of the Cool
C.
Kind of Blue
D.
Sketches of Spain
Question #24
Which Bill Evans composition, featured on Kind of Blue, makes use of a ten-measure chord sequence with no obvious beginning or ending?
A.
So What
B.
Blue in Green
C.
Very Early
D.
Freddie Freeloader
Question #25
Which John Coltrane composition is considered a test pattern for music students attempting to master fast-moving harmonies?
A.
Blue Trane
B.
Giant Steps
C.
Ascension
D.
So What
Question #26
Which musician served as a primary composer within Miles Davis’s second great quintet?
A.
Gil Evans
B.
Miles Davis
C.
John Coltrane
D.
Wayne Shorter
Question #27
Who was the drummer in Miles Davis' first great quintet?
A.
Elvin Jones
B.
Tony Williams
C.
Jimmy Cobb
D.
Philly Jo Jones
Question #28
Who were the saxophonists on Kind of Blue?
A.
Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan
B.
Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane
C.
Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
D.
Charlie Parker and Lester Young
Question #29
Which John Coltrane album was dedicated to a spiritual higher power, or G-d?
A.
Sun Ship
B.
My Favorite Things
C.
A Love Supreme
D.
Giant Steps
Question #30
What is the original context of the term avant-garde?
A.
philosophy
B.
theater
C.
visual art
D.
military
Question #31
The first wave of avant-garde art was inspired by all of the following innovations EXCEPT:
A.
new technology that enabled rapid communication across long distances
B.
the expansion of women’s rights
C.
the emergence of African American artists as equal to their white counterparts
D.
he devastation of World War I
Question #32
Which of the following titles was NOT used to describe the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s?
A.
post-jazz
B.
anti-jazz
C.
Black Music
D.
free jazz
Question #33
Ornette Coleman’s 1959 residency at this New York club established him as a major player in avant-garde jazz and one of the most divisive figures of the era.
A.
The Village Vanguard
B.
The Five Spot
C.
Birdland
D.
Minton’s Playhouse
Question #34
What was the name of Ornette Coleman's bassist on his 1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come?
A.
Charles Mingus
B.
Paul Chambers
C.
Charlie Haden
D.
Scott La Faro
Question #35
Before leading his own ensemble, Cecil Taylor trained in what musical idiom?
A.
swing
B.
bebop
C.
classical
D.
blues
Question #36
Which major jazz figure, who had established credentials by mastering bebop, served as an unofficial referee in debates about avant-garde jazz?
A.
Bill Evans
B.
Dizzy Gillespie
C.
Miles Davis
D.
John Coltrane
Question #37
A.
Mercury
B.
Saturn
C.
Mars
D.
Earth
Question #38
In the 1970s, musicians dedicated to free improvisation undertook a mass migration to establish the loft scene of which major city?
A.
Paris
B.
New York
C.
Chicago
D.
Los Angeles
Question #39
What1961 recording captured a thirty-seven minute collective improvisation by a group that Ornette Coleman referred to as his Double Quartet.
A.
Free Jazz
B.
Song X
C.
Tomorrow is the Question
D.
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Question #40
This musician single-handedly made the bass clarinet a significant instrument in jazz.
A.
Benny Goodman
B.
John Coltrane
C.
Eric Dolphy
D.
Sonny Rollins
Question #41
In Chapter 16, the textbook authors define “fusion” as all music situated on the boundary between jazz and:
A.
world music
B.
popular music
C.
gospel music
D.
classical music
Question #42
Which bandleader is most closely associated with “jump” music, which grew into rhythm and blues?
A.
Louis Armstrong
B.
Louis Jordan
C.
Lionel Hampton
D.
Cab Calloway
Question #43
Through his use of bluesy piano chords and a group of background singers, Ray Charles maintained a close connection with which American musical tradition?
A.
bebop
B.
gospel
C.
blues
D.
ragtime
Question #44
Which jazz label released the soul jazz hits “Watermelon Man,” “The Sidewinder,” and “Song for My Father” in the 1960s?
A.
Riverside
B.
Blue Note
C.
Columbia
D.
Prestige
Question #45
Which is NOT a reason why the 1950s are described as a golden age for singers of the great American songbook?
A.
A large repertory of high-quality songs had been created between the 1920s and the 1950s.
B.
There were many gifted vocalists.
C.
Singers abandoned jazz and swing styles, updating the songbook with fresh new pop arrangements.
D.
The rise of television helped sustain the careers of established performers.
Question #46
A.
to blend into the ensemble like an instrumentalist
B.
to perform with perfect rhythmic accuracy
C.
to sing long phrases without breathing
D.
to communicate the meaning of the lyrics through his phrasing
Question #47
Which of the following was an American dance craze based on Cuban music?
A.
mambo
B.
cha-cha-cha
C.
all of the answers
D.
rumba
Question #48
Which is NOT true of clave as used in Cuban music and Afro-Cuban jazz?
A.
It is the foundation for the contrasting rhythms played by the rest of the ensemble.
B.
It is an asymmetrical, two-measure rhythmic pattern.
C.
Clave is the Spanish word for “keystone.”
D.
Clave originated in Cuba.
Question #49
Bossa nova emerged in the 1950s as a new twist on which traditional Latin American tradition?
A.
merengue
B.
samba
C.
son
D.
salsa
Question #50
All of the following contributed to the American embrace of bossa nova EXCEPT:
A.
The Cuban Revolution led to an embargo on Cuban cultural imports.
B.
Bossa nova’s aggressive rhythms fit the revolutionary spirit of 1960s America.
C.
Saxophonist Stan Getz recorded several bossa nova records after his association with guitarist Charlie Byrd.
D.
Touring musicians discovered the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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