WorksheetsDixieland Jazz Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 13mins
Where did Dixieland Jazz get its start?
New York City
Chicago
New Orleans
Lexington
Who lived in “downtown” New Orleans?
Poor African Americans
Wealthy African Americans
Poor White Americans
Wealthy White Americans
Mardi Gras is also known as?
Ash Wednesday
Fun Friday
Music Monday
Fat Tuesday
The Mardi Gras Indians were black "gangs" whose members "masked" as _________ __________ on Mardi Gras day to honor them.
(a)
The Mardi Gras Indians used drums to intimidate other gangs. The beats/rhythms they used were based off of...
African music
Caribbean music
Italian music
European music
What genres of music was Dixieland Jazz inspired by?
Gospel
Ragtime
Opera
Military Band
Blues
Jelly Roll Morton is believed to be the first to...
Sing at a night club
Put his music on paper
Tap dance
Start a record company
What is a bordello?
gathering place for men
Dance club in the city
public park
group of children
What would people do in the “red light district”?
Make instruments
Go to the opera
Go to college
Experience downtown night life
The name of Jelly Roll Mortons band was Jelly Roll Morton’s _____ _____ _______.
(a)
The cornet is similar to what instrument?
Trombone
Tuba
Trumpet
Flute
Buddy Bolden’s Band members could not read sheet music so they would make things up as they were performing. This became a jazz staple known as (a) .
What instrument did Buddy Bolden play?
Cornet
Clarinet
Saxophone
Trombone
What instrument did Jelly Roll Morton play?
Flute
Bass Guitar
Drums
Piano
Nick La Rocca was a composer, trumpeter, cornetist, and band leader of which group?
Red Hot Peppers
The Trumbauer’s
The Original Jass Band
La Rocca and Friends
Nick La Rocca and his bands record, "Dixieland Jass One Step"/"Livery Stable Blues", was the very first commercially released Jazz record and they were the first to have hit records in the genre.
True
False
Nick La Rocca was the composer of the Jazz classic, "______ _____," one of the most recorded Jazz standards of all time, and many other well-known songs.
(a)
At one of Buddy Bolden’s Band’s first public performances in 1898, Bolden chose to play Home Sweet Home as a send off of American troops bound for Cuba during which war?
Civil War
Spanish American War
Cold War
World War I
Bix Beiderbecke was a composer and played what instrument?
Tuba
Trombone
Cornet
Drums
Bix Beiderbecke was the first major ______ jazz soloist.
African American
Hispanic
White
Native American
Where did Bix Beiderbecke start his career?
Chicago
New Orleans
New York City
Nashville
