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Chapter 9 Test - Early Jazz Music Appreciation

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name this tune by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. (ODJB)

a)

Lazy River

b)

Livery Stable Blues

c)

Cake Walkin' Babies from Home

d)

Singin' the Blues

2.

Name this tune which showcases the sounds of a New Orleans Funeral

a)

Dead Man Blues

b)

Lazy River

c)

Mardi Gras

d)

Sugar Foot Stomp

3.

Name the recording artist who created this early instance of overdubbing in 1941.. He is playing all of the instruments in the recording.

a)

Sidney Bechet

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Jelly Roll Morton

d)

Buddy Bolden

4.

Name this hit by Louis Armstrong that reinvented an older song in a new way.

a)

Lazy River

b)

Chimes Blues

c)

Cake Walkin' Babies from Home

d)

Black Beauty

5.

Name this swing tune by Fletcher Henderson, one of the greatest Swing Arrangers to ever work in the field.

a)

Lazy River

b)

Sugar Foot Stomp

c)

Jumpin' at the Woodside

d)

Big Noise from Winnetka

6.

Name this solo piano work by Duke Ellington

a)

A Single Petal of a Rose

b)

Black Beauty

c)

Take the A Train

d)

Chimes Blues

7.

Name this King Oliver tune that features Louis Armstrong. Listen to Lil Hardin's Piano solo as a hint.

a)

Sugar Foot Stomp

b)

Chimes Blues

c)

Cake Walkin' Babies from Home

d)

Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears

8.

Name this great tune, named after a popular dance, by Clarence Williams and featuring Sidney Bechet.

a)

Lazy River

b)

Heebie Jeebies

c)

Cake Walkin' Babies from Home

d)

Black Beauty

9.

What was the name of the first jazz band to record an album?

a)

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

b)

Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Peppers

c)

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

d)

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five

10.

What American composer wrote over 1,000 pieces of music and was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Jelly Roll Morton

b)

Count Basie

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

King Oliver

11.

Who was the first Jazz musician to write Jazz down and publish it?

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Jelly Roll Morton

d)

Sidney Bechet

12.

What was the name of the french speaking, multiracial group that lent classical instrumental training to the birth of Jazz?

a)

Acadians

b)

Swamp People

c)

Creoles

d)

Yankees

13.

In what city was Jazz born?

a)

New York

b)

Chicago

c)

Kansas City

d)

New Orleans

14.

What was the name of the park where enslaved African Americans could still practice their native dances and music in New Orleans?

a)

Congo Square

b)

Louis Armstrong Park

c)

Central Park

d)

French Quarter

15.

Who is credited as the first great Jazz musician, though he suffered from alcoholism and later dementia?

a)

Sidney Bechet

b)

Buddy Bolden

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Billy Strayhorn

16.

What is the term that referred to real Jazz made by African-Americans and creoles in New Orleans?

a)

Sweet Jazz

b)

Spicy Jazz

c)

Hot Jazz

d)

Rent Jazz

17.

What was the term for the more polite version of Jazz that was marketed to sell records?

a)

Late Jazz

b)

Hot Jazz

c)

Sweet Jazz

d)

Bossa Nova

18.

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?

a)

King Oliver

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Jelly Roll Morton

19.

Which of our artists performed in New Orleans, Chicago and New York, and is considered Jazz's first nationwide superstar?

a)

Sidney Bechet

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Fletcher Henderson

20.

Which of our artists gave up being a band leader after many financial problems and arranged jazz tunes for Benny Goodman?

a)

Clarence Williams

b)

Fletcher Henderson

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

King Oliver

21.

Which of our artists is responsible for getting Louis to leave New Orleans, come to Chicago, and begin his solo career?

a)

King Oliver

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Count Basie

d)

Jelly Roll Morton

22.

What was the name of Louis Armstrong's piano playing second wife?

a)

Lillian "Lil" Hardin

b)

Viladia Snow

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Ella Fitzgerald

23.

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?

a)

Paquito D'Rivera

b)

Sidney Bechet

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Coleman Hawkins

24.

What instrument replaced the cornet?

a)

Saxophone

b)

Clarinet

c)

Trumpet

d)

Sousaphone

25.

What instrument replaced the clarinet in Jazz bands?

a)

Cornet

b)

Saxophone

c)

Trumpet

d)

Trombone