Cumulative Jazz Practice

“The Empress of the Blues,” she was the highest paid African 

American artist in the 1920s. 

• Nina Simone

• Bessie Smith

• Esperanza Spalding

• Tina Turner

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What is the pre-composed melody called in standard jazz "architecture?"

• Chorus

• Solo

• Harmony

• Head

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Characteristics of Free Jazz

• Fixed Harmonic Structure

• Primarily Improvised Material

• Experimental

• Standard Jazz "Architecture"

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The sound of two or more notes heard simultaneously.

• Swing

• Melody

• Harmony

• Call and Response

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The coexistence of multiple meanings for a word or phrase

• Musicking

• Polysemy

• Participatory Music

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Though there were several contributors, ______ is known as the principal innovator of bebop.

This trumpeter recorded multiple albums with Charlie Parker and is one of the several contributors to the origination and development of bebop. Parker called him, "the other half of [his] heartbeat."

• Miles Davis

• Dizzy Gillespie

• Duke Ellington

• John Coltrane

Rhythm which makes use of two or more different rhythms simultaneously

• Polyrhythm

• Call and Response

• Blue Note

• Harmony

Place these in order of the conventional narrative of jazz history.

• Ragtime

• Free Jazz

• Bebop

• Swing

• New Orleans Jazz

Contemporary Afro-Cuban bass player and bandleader, he 

comes from an important musical dynasty in Cuba and performs and teaches in New York City.

• Charles Mingus

• João Gilberto

• Christian McBride

• Yunior Terry