How Hip Are You?

What kind of music is this quiz about?

licorice stick

• candy
• clarinet
• drum sticks

scat singing

• signing on nonsense syllables, perfected by 1st Lady of Song,, Ella Fitzgerald
• keeping the words well articulated when singing
• repeating the same syllables over and over

sideman

• musician performing on the side of the stage
• member of the band who is not the leader
• your BFF

Jazz is believed to have originated in

• Chicago
• New Orleans
• St. Louis
• Kansas City

dance orchestras of the Swing Era 1935-1945

• Big Band, Tommy Dorsey, Count Bassie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman
• doo wop
• disco

jazz style created by African Americans in the 20th century; uses elements of European-American and tribal African music, characteristics include improvisation, bent pitches, wing and polyrhythms

• True
• False

After hours

• coda
• 1920's and 1930's term referring to jazz musicians performing after a gig
• West Coast jazz style

axe

• a saxophone, or one's instrument
• a tool to chop wood
• "beef" you may have with somebody you don't like

backline

• the rhythm or percussion players in a jazz group
• a jazz singer
• the back of a stage