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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.
bebop fans shunning the 1960s avant-garde as noise
C.
hard bop fans shunning Dizzy Gillespie as a corporate sell-out
D.
Dixieland fans shunning Louis Armstrong’s embrace of popular songs
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.
during the Swing Era, when jazz was the nation’s popular music
C.
in the late 1960s, when avant-garde improvisers began denying the influence of jazz
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.
a balance between composition and improvisation
B.
warm timbres emphasizing each instrument’s middle range
C.
an insistent pulse for dancers
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.
Gil Evans
D.
John Lewis
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.
Third Stream
B.
Modal Jazz
C.
Cool Jazz
D.
Hard Bop
Question #6
Which 1948 change in audio technology enabled musicians to release records with around twenty minutes of music per side?
A.
wire recorders
B.
33 ⅓-rpm microgroove LPs
C.
stereo recording
D.
45-rpm records
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.
Max Roach
B.
Kenny Clarke
C.
Art Blakey
D.
Philly Jo Jones
Question #8
Cool jazz and hard bop are divergent schools that both developed from the shared practices of ________ of the 1940s.
A.
Swing
B.
Modal Jazz
C.
Dixieland Jazz
D.
Be bop
Question #9
Which pianist worked to bring together the baroque polyphony of J. S. Bach and the rhythmic feeling of the blues.
A.
Dave Brubeck
B.
John Lewis
C.
Lennie Tristano
D.
Horace Silver
Question #10
Forward-thinking jazz composers of the 1950s combined modern jazz style with all of the following traditional elements EXCEPT:
A.
short breaks
B.
stride piano
C.
classical chamber music forms
D.
standard jazz and pop themes
Question #11
Which is the most widely recorded of Thelonious Monk’s early compositions?
A.
Ruby, My Dear
B.
Hackensack
C.
Epistrophy
D.
’Round Midnight
Question #12
In 1957, Thelonious Monk played a long engagement at the Five Spot with which important tenor saxophonist?
A.
Ben Webster
B.
John Coltrane
C.
Charlie Rouse
D.
Sonny Rollins
Question #13
What was the political message of Charles Mingus’s “Fables of Faubus”?
A.
It was pro-women’s rights.
B.
It was pro-communist.
C.
It was pro-integration.
D.
It criticized President Eisenhower.
Question #14
Although he composed original works, Gil Evans is known primarily as:
A.
a music theorist
B.
an arranger
C.
a concert organizer
D.
a pianist
Question #15
All of the following are signature aspects of Gil Evans’s arrangements EXCEPT:
A.
a close musical connection to the harmonies and textures of the original composition
B.
generous use of counterpoint
C.
sonorous slow-moving chords
D.
a wide range of instrumental registers
Question #16
George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept forms the basis for which approach to jazz improvisation?
A.
bebop
B.
modalism
C.
fusion
D.
harmonic substitution
Question #17
Thelonious Monk mentored this younger pianist helping to connect him/her to the inner circle of bebop innovators.
A.
Mary Lou Williams
B.
Bud Powell
C.
Marian McPartland
D.
Bill Evans
Question #18
This Miles Davis album popularized the modal approach to jazz improvisation.
A.
Milestones
B.
Kind of Blue
C.
Birth of the Cool
D.
Walkin'
Question #19
Why is Miles Davis considered the most important figure in postwar jazz?
A.
He had a great capacity for change.
B.
He invented the theory behind modal jazz.
C.
He was the most consistent in his musical output over two decades.
D.
He was the most vocal advocate of Civil Rights.
Question #20
Throughout his career, Miles Davis relentlessly experimented with each of the following elements except:
A.
melody
B.
harmony
C.
intonation
D.
instrumentation
Question #21
At age nineteen Miles Davis was hired to record with which bebop figure?
A.
Charlie Parker
B.
Max Roach
C.
Thelonious Monk
D.
Dizzy Gillespie
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.
Cookin'
B.
Workin'
C.
Jammin'
D.
Relaxin'
Question #23
Miles Davis and Gil Evans conceived of Miles Ahead as an extension and expansion of which earlier recording?
A.
Kind of Blue
B.
Milestones
C.
Sketches of Spain
D.
The Birth of the Cool
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.
Freddie Freeloader
B.
Very Early
C.
So What
D.
Blue in Green
Question #25
Which John Coltrane composition is considered a test pattern for music students attempting to master fast-moving harmonies?
A.
Ascension
B.
So What
C.
Blue Trane
D.
Giant Steps
Question #26
Which musician served as a primary composer within Miles Davis’s second great quintet?
A.
Gil Evans
B.
Wayne Shorter
C.
Miles Davis
D.
John Coltrane
Question #27
Who was the drummer in Miles Davis' first great quintet?
A.
Elvin Jones
B.
Tony Williams
C.
Philly Jo Jones
D.
Jimmy Cobb
Question #28
Who were the saxophonists on Kind of Blue?
A.
Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
B.
Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan
C.
Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane
D.
Charlie Parker and Lester Young
Question #29
Which John Coltrane album was dedicated to a spiritual higher power, or G-d?
A.
Giant Steps
B.
A Love Supreme
C.
Sun Ship
D.
My Favorite Things
Question #30
What is the original context of the term avant-garde?
A.
theater
B.
military
C.
visual art
D.
philosophy
Question #31
The first wave of avant-garde art was inspired by all of the following innovations EXCEPT:
A.
the expansion of women’s rights
B.
new technology that enabled rapid communication across long distances
C.
he devastation of World War I
D.
the emergence of African American artists as equal to their white counterparts
Question #32
Which of the following titles was NOT used to describe the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s?
A.
post-jazz
B.
free jazz
C.
anti-jazz
D.
Black Music
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.
Birdland
B.
Minton’s Playhouse
C.
The Five Spot
D.
The Village Vanguard
Question #34
What was the name of Ornette Coleman's bassist on his 1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come?
A.
Scott La Faro
B.
Charles Mingus
C.
Paul Chambers
D.
Charlie Haden
Question #35
Before leading his own ensemble, Cecil Taylor trained in what musical idiom?
A.
blues
B.
swing
C.
bebop
D.
classical
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.
Dizzy Gillespie
B.
Miles Davis
C.
Bill Evans
D.
John Coltrane
Question #37
A.
Earth
B.
Mercury
C.
Saturn
D.
Mars
Question #38
In the 1970s, musicians dedicated to free improvisation undertook a mass migration to establish the loft scene of which major city?
A.
Chicago
B.
Los Angeles
C.
New York
D.
Paris
Question #39
What1961 recording captured a thirty-seven minute collective improvisation by a group that Ornette Coleman referred to as his Double Quartet.
A.
Song X
B.
Free Jazz
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.
Eric Dolphy
C.
John Coltrane
D.
Sonny Rollins
Question #41
In Chapter 16, the textbook authors define “fusion” as all music situated on the boundary between jazz and:
A.
popular music
B.
classical music
C.
world music
D.
gospel music
Question #42
Which bandleader is most closely associated with “jump” music, which grew into rhythm and blues?
A.
Lionel Hampton
B.
Louis Armstrong
C.
Cab Calloway
D.
Louis Jordan
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.
blues
B.
gospel
C.
ragtime
D.
bebop
Question #44
Which jazz label released the soul jazz hits “Watermelon Man,” “The Sidewinder,” and “Song for My Father” in the 1960s?
A.
Columbia
B.
Riverside
C.
Blue Note
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.
There were many gifted vocalists.
B.
A large repertory of high-quality songs had been created between the 1920s and the 1950s.
C.
The rise of television helped sustain the careers of established performers.
D.
Singers abandoned jazz and swing styles, updating the songbook with fresh new pop arrangements.
Question #46
What was Frank Sinatra’s primary goal as a singer?
A.
to perform with perfect rhythmic accuracy
B.
to blend into the ensemble like an instrumentalist
C.
to communicate the meaning of the lyrics through his phrasing
D.
to sing long phrases without breathing
Question #47
Which of the following was an American dance craze based on Cuban music?
A.
cha-cha-cha
B.
all of the answers
C.
rumba
D.
mambo
Question #48
Which is NOT true of clave as used in Cuban music and Afro-Cuban jazz?
A.
Clave is the Spanish word for “keystone.”
B.
Clave originated in Cuba.
C.
It is the foundation for the contrasting rhythms played by the rest of the ensemble.
D.
It is an asymmetrical, two-measure rhythmic pattern.
Question #49
Bossa nova emerged in the 1950s as a new twist on which traditional Latin American tradition?
A.
son
B.
merengue
C.
samba
D.
salsa
Question #50
All of the following contributed to the American embrace of bossa nova EXCEPT:
A.
Bossa nova’s aggressive rhythms fit the revolutionary spirit of 1960s America.
B.
Saxophonist Stan Getz recorded several bossa nova records after his association with guitarist Charlie Byrd.
C.
Touring musicians discovered the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
D.
The Cuban Revolution led to an embargo on Cuban cultural imports.
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