1.16 Unit Test Jazz

Question: Which musical traditions and practices did jazz music evolve from?

Answer: African traditions and European and American musical practices

Question: Which style of jazz combines elements of blues and ragtime, introduces group improvisation, and is sometimes known as Dixieland?

Answer: New Orleans jazz

Question: Which musician was not a famous big band leader during the swing era?

Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

Question: Is this statement true or false?

African American culture and the African American experience of oppression were the biggest contributory factors in the development of jazz music.

Answer: true

Question: Which group of jazz musicians was important to Latin jazz?

Answer: Tito Puente, Chick Corea, Joao Gilberto, Arturo Sandoval

Question: Which instruments make up the members of a jazz rhythm section?

Answer: piano, bass, drums

Question: Which musical element is the ability to play music spontaneously by ear, and distinguishes jazz from most other styles of music?

Answer: improvisation

Question: In which type of improvisation does a singer improvise melodies using nonsense syllables?

Answer: scat singing

Question: Which female jazz singer is considered one of the greatest scat singers in all of jazz and whose technique has been studied by instrumentalists?

Answer: Ella Fitzgerald

Question: Tin Pan Alley was a centralized location for what music industry?

Answer: music publishing