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Fusion and the Jazz of Today

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fusion is the blending of jazz and what other genre?

(a)  

2.

What was fusion at the forefront of jazz?

a)

1930-1945

b)

1945-1950

c)

1969-1990

d)

1990-present

3.

Many jazz musicians and fans did not consider fusion real jazz.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Which of the following were fusion musicians?

a)

Chick Corea

b)

Weather Report

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Herbie Hancock

5.

Which of the following is NOT a direction that today's jazz artists are going in?

a)

traditional

b)

contemporary mainstream

c)

backwards

d)

anything goes

6.

Traditionalists believe that what they play is “real jazz.”

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Which trumpeter below is at the forefront of the traditionalist movement?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Wynton Marsalis

c)

Miles Davis

d)

Dizzy Gillespie

8.

Contemporary mainstream jazz artists are influenced mostly by which genre?

a)

Hard Bop

b)

Swing

c)

Disco

d)

Rock

9.

What type of music might "anything goes" jazz artists use in their songs?

a)

all styles of jazz

b)

classical music

c)

world music

d)

any genre of music

e)

all of the above

10.

Which three below are some of today's most famous and respected jazz musicians?

a)

Chet Baker

b)

Herbie Hancock

c)

Wayne Shorter

d)

Ron Carter

11.

There are very few middle school, high school, and college/university big bands.

a)

True

b)

False