Does it Swing? Jazz History

Where is the birthplace of jazz?

• New York City

• New Orleans

• Bristol

• Chicago

This African American music style influenced jazz.

• blues

• rock

• romantic

• disco

Improvising is important in jazz music. To improvise means to improve and _____________.

• make up something new on the spot

• read music

• play loudly

• give your song a name

Nonsense syllables sung in a way to which mimics horns and other instruments is called ___________.

• cool cat singing

• scat singing

• bebopping

• swinging

This device is put in the bell of a trumpet or trombone to change the sounds.

• wah

• glove

• can

• mute

What does multiphonics mean?

• playing two sounds at once

• multiplication

• writing a jazz hit

• teaching a jazz song

What technology most helped jazz spread across the United States in the 1920's?

• TV

• Radio

• records

• cars

Duke Ellington's theme song on his radio show was called ______.

• "Apple Pie"

• "A Train"

• "B Bus"

• "It Don't Mean a Thing"

After jazz spread to the big cities in the north, _________ was it's new home; where the legendary Cotton Club featured jazz musicians live every night.

• Beale Street

• Soho

• Brooklyn

• Harlem

_______ was the most popular music in America in the 1920's-1940's.

• Country

• Classical

• Jazz

• Blues