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WorksheetsChapter 9 Test - Early Jazz Music Appreciation
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name this tune by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. (ODJB)
Lazy River
Livery Stable Blues
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
Singin' the Blues
Name this tune which showcases the sounds of a New Orleans Funeral
Dead Man Blues
Lazy River
Mardi Gras
Sugar Foot Stomp
Name the recording artist who created this early instance of overdubbing in 1941.. He is playing all of the instruments in the recording.
Sidney Bechet
Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Buddy Bolden
Name this hit by Louis Armstrong that reinvented an older song in a new way.
Lazy River
Chimes Blues
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
Black Beauty
Name this swing tune by Fletcher Henderson, one of the greatest Swing Arrangers to ever work in the field.
Lazy River
Sugar Foot Stomp
Jumpin' at the Woodside
Big Noise from Winnetka
Name this solo piano work by Duke Ellington
A Single Petal of a Rose
Black Beauty
Take the A Train
Chimes Blues
Name this King Oliver tune that features Louis Armstrong. Listen to Lil Hardin's Piano solo as a hint.
Sugar Foot Stomp
Chimes Blues
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears
Name this great tune, named after a popular dance, by Clarence Williams and featuring Sidney Bechet.
Lazy River
Heebie Jeebies
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
Black Beauty
What was the name of the first jazz band to record an album?
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Peppers
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
What American composer wrote over 1,000 pieces of music and was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Jelly Roll Morton
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
King Oliver
Who was the first Jazz musician to write Jazz down and publish it?
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Sidney Bechet
What was the name of the french speaking, multiracial group that lent classical instrumental training to the birth of Jazz?
Acadians
Swamp People
Creoles
Yankees
In what city was Jazz born?
New York
Chicago
Kansas City
New Orleans
What was the name of the park where enslaved African Americans could still practice their native dances and music in New Orleans?
Congo Square
Louis Armstrong Park
Central Park
French Quarter
Who is credited as the first great Jazz musician, though he suffered from alcoholism and later dementia?
Sidney Bechet
Buddy Bolden
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
What is the term that referred to real Jazz made by African-Americans and creoles in New Orleans?
Sweet Jazz
Spicy Jazz
Hot Jazz
Rent Jazz
What was the term for the more polite version of Jazz that was marketed to sell records?
Late Jazz
Hot Jazz
Sweet Jazz
Bossa Nova
Which of our artists was a travelling musician, actor, minstrel singer, and sometime peddler of a fake medicine made out of coffee and coca cola?
King Oliver
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
Which of our artists performed in New Orleans, Chicago and New York, and is considered Jazz's first nationwide superstar?
Sidney Bechet
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Fletcher Henderson
Which of our artists gave up being a band leader after many financial problems and arranged jazz tunes for Benny Goodman?
Clarence Williams
Fletcher Henderson
Louis Armstrong
King Oliver
Which of our artists is responsible for getting Louis to leave New Orleans, come to Chicago, and begin his solo career?
King Oliver
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Jelly Roll Morton
What was the name of Louis Armstrong's piano playing second wife?
Lillian "Lil" Hardin
Viladia Snow
Bessie Smith
Ella Fitzgerald
What clarinet and saxophone soloist was deported from France after accidentally shooting a woman while having a duel with another musician who accused him of playing wrong notes?
Paquito D'Rivera
Sidney Bechet
Louis Armstrong
Coleman Hawkins
What instrument replaced the cornet?
Saxophone
Clarinet
Trumpet
Sousaphone
What instrument replaced the clarinet in Jazz bands?
Cornet
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
