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Bolden/Storyville/Bechet/Kephart/Jass/Creole

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is credited to be the first to actually play Jass?

a)

Nick Laroca

b)

Freddie Kephart

c)

Buddy Bolden

d)

Jelly Roll Morton

2.

Which trumpet player put a handerkerchef over his fingers when he played so that nobody could see his fingers and steal his playing?

a)

Buddy Bolden

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Freddie Kephart

d)

Nick Laroca

3.

What part of New Orleans did jazz originally come from?

a)

Orleans

b)

Greenwood

c)

Storyville

d)

Kenner

4.

February 27, 1915

a)

Buddy Bolden records jazz for the first time

b)

Nick Laroca and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records Jazz for the first time

c)

Freddie Kephart records Jazz for the first time on Victrola

d)

Louis Armstrong records St. Louis Blues for Victrola Recording Company

5.

March 7, 1917

a)

Jazz record is recorded

b)

Jazz is first published on record

c)

Jazz is first written down

d)

Jazz is first televised

6.

This person said that blacks could not have invented jazz. Only white people did.

a)

Calvin Coolige

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Nick Laroca

d)

D.W.Griffith

7.

Played clarinet and soprano saxophone

a)

Freddie Kephart

b)

Sidney Bechet

c)

Budy Bolden

d)

Artie Shaw

8.

What dance was disrespected by the middle-class whites and some "uppity" blacks?

a)

Bump

b)

Waltz

c)

Fox Trot

d)

Twist

9.

Creoles were_________________in music before Plessy Vs. Ferguson

a)

refined in culture

b)

Classically trained

c)

Steeped in jazz

d)

interested

10.
a)

Recordergraph

b)

Victrola

c)

Vitrola

d)

Kleintograph

11.

Who are the Castle's ?

What did they do?

4 lines
12.

Name the black band director who demanded musical excellence from his players to read music

a)

James Meece

b)

James Meece Erope

c)

James Reese Europe

d)

James Reece Eueorp

13.

Who sold the most records before Jazz was recorded?

a)

Elvis Presely

b)

Little Richard

c)

Caruso and Sousa

d)

Sidney Bechet

14.

The musical section of lower NY City where most of the composers lived and worked was nicknamed

a)

Red Light District

b)

Bronx

c)

Queens

d)

Tin Pan Alley

15.

What was the name of one of the companies that started recording and selling records

a)

Victrola RCA

b)

Victor Talking Machine Co.

c)

Victrola Co.

d)

RCA Victor

16.

left for Los Angeles from New Orleans in 1914

a)

Kephart

b)

Armstrong

c)

Bolden

d)

Bechet

17.

What was the name of the place in New Orleans where slaves used to dance and sing on Sundays and then became a gathering place for music after Slavery

a)

Plantation Square

b)

Congo Square

c)

Kenner Square

d)

Orleans Square

18.

The piano player who falsely claimed to have invented jazz

a)

Kelly Morton

b)

Ferdinand DeMoth

c)

Sidney Bechet

d)

McCoy Tyner

19.

Who was Jelly Roll Morton?

a)

Kelly Montose

b)

Sam Spade

c)

Jelly Roll Morton

d)

Dan Bolden

20.

Whjich one of these musicians from New Orleans was eventually committed toan insane asylum?

a)

Buddy Bolden

b)

Jelly Roll Morton

c)

Freddie Kephart

d)

Sidney Bechet