Academic Olympics Fine Arts Music

Which medium did not significantly add to the dissemination of music during the Jazz Age?

• phonograph

• player piano

• radio

• vaudeville

The figure which was NOT emblematic of the 1920's was the _____.

• cake-eater

• flapper

• gangster

• soap opera

The initiation of the Jazz Age in New York is generally marked by the appearance at Reisenweber's of which of the following?

• Bix Beiderbecke

• Brown's Dixieland Band

• the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

• W.C. Handy

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band formed in _____?

• Chicago

• Kansas City

• New Orleans

• St. Louis

The first white combo to move from New Orleans to Chicago was _____?

• the New Orleans Rhythm Kinga

• the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

• Tom Brown's Band

• the Wolverines

The initial reaction to the Chicago Musicians Union to jazz was one of _____?

• approval

• indifference

• rejection

• welcome

Louis Armstrong played the _____?

• clarinet

• cornet

• piano

• trombone

In 1926, while he was working at Chicago's Vendome Theatre with Erskine Tate's "symphonic jazz orchestra," Louis Armstrong switched from _____.

• cornet to trumpet

• cornet to trombone

• crumpet to cornet

• trombone to trumpet

Jelly Roll Morton combined elements of all of the following in his music EXCEPT _____?

• blues

• jazz

• New Orleans marching band music

• Tin Pan Alley popular songs

The reason Bix Beiderbecke was able to cope in Paul Whiteman's symphonic jazz band was his _____?

• ear for music

• friendship with Louis Armstrong

• slight-reading ability

• sophisticated arrangements