Origins & Ragtime - Sect 4

In what US city was Jazz born?

• New York

• Chicago

• New Orleans

• Memphis

Jazz was born about ....

• 400 years ago

• 300 years ago

• 200 years ago

• 100 years ago

Jazz's roots can be found in the musical traditions of...

• Africa

• Europe

• Africa and Europe

• Asia

From Africa, jazz got its

• rhythm and "feel"

• "blues" quality

• sensibility of improvising the music

• all of the above

From Europe, Jazz got...

• its harmony, i.e., the chords used in jazz

• most of its instruments (piano, saxophone, trumpet, etc.)

• both A & B

• neither A or B

New Orleans was the ideal city for the various elements leading to the creation of jazz to come together because it was...

• a seaport city with people arriving from around the world

• a meeting place for people of different ethnic groups

• a city with a nightmare in which diverse musicians had the opportunity to play together, learn from each other, and share their respective musical heritages

• All of the above

Jazz was born out of and evolved through the...

• African American experience in Africa

• African American experience in the US

• European experience in New Orleans

• European experience in New York

Jazz evolved from...

• slave work songs and spirituals

• bebop

• Rock

• Fusion

Jazz's originators and most important innovators were primarily

• Native American

• Appalachian farmers

• members of the clergy

• African Americans

The most important jazz originator and first great jazz soloist (improvisor) was...

• DukeEllington

• Thelonious Monk

• Louis Armstrong

• Jelly Roll Morton