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