History of Jazz- Chapter 4(New Orleans)

Why are Jelly Roll Morton's 1923 recording sessions with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings significant?

It was the first integrated jazz recording session

A system of racial ___________ was legalized through the 1894 Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.

Segregation

All of the following factors were causes of the Great Migration:

Segregation, sharecropping, lack of political power

Which of the following was true of the social position of Uptown Negroes in nineteenth-century New Orleans?

Intermediary because of the acknowledgment of Mulatto culture

Nineteenth-century New Orleans shows the influence of all of the following cultures

American commerce, Caribbean islands, France, Spain, Cuba, South America

A short solo improvisation at the end of a phrase in New Orleans jazz is called:

Break/Stop-time

Never-recorded trumpeter who is said to have originated jazz style

Buddy Bolden

New Orleans jazz primarily featured which of the following musical textures?

Collective Improvisation

The clarinetist's role in a New Orleans jazz band is to perform a ____________, an active improvised accompaniment to the main trumpet melody.

Countermelody

As was common at the time, Gennett Records marketed the recordings of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band to a black audience as race records.

False

Because of Jim Crow laws, Creoles of Color and Uptown Negroes remained segregated from each other well into the twentieth century.

False

From its earliest days, jazz was embraced across America.

False

Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz.

False

New Orleans style jazz provided many opportunities for musicians to change the form of a composition through improvisation.

False

Other than the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, there were no significant white performers in the New Orleans jazz tradition.

False

Sidney Bechet spent a large part of his career, and became a beloved national figure, in which country?

France

Early jazz trumpeter who lost the opportunity to record the first jazz record

Freddie Keppard

At the turn of the twentieth century, most New Orleans Creoles lived in the _____________.

French Quarter

The largest internal relocation of people in the history of the United States was known as _________________________.

Great Migration

Regarded as the first great jazz composer

Jelly Roll Martin

Bandleader at Chicago's Lincoln Gardens

King Oliver

Who led the Onward Brass Band, a group that blended Creole sophistication with improvisational artistry?

Manuel Perez

King Oliver used a wide range of ________ to vary the timbre of his trumpet.

Mutes

What was unusual about the front line of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band?

Oliver played seated or leaning against a wall

What was the instrumentation of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?

Piano, Drums, Clarinet, Trombone, Trumpet/Cornet

Which is the trumpet or cornet's role in the New Orleans jazz band?

Play a straight melody

Buddy Bolden's repertoire demonstrates what characteristic of professional musicians of the period?

Play based on the expectations of the audience

The most distinctive feature of New Orleans jazz is:

Polyphonic/Collective individualism

In acoustic recordings such as the ones made at Gennett studios, how was the relative volume of the instruments adjusted?

Positioning in the room around the microphone

What was the form of most New Orleans jazz compositions?

Ragtime

Established the soprano saxophone as a jazz instrument

Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet was known as a virtuoso of the _______ saxophone, an instrument that features a straight bell rather than the curved bell of larger saxophones.

Soprano

Sidney Bechet is responsible for establishing this instrument as a jazz instrument:

Soprano saxophone

The short, detached articulation prominent at the beginning of "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" is referred to as:

Staccato

____________, a zone of New Orleans in which prostitution was legal until 1917, was an area where many elements of jazz style originated.

Storyville

Which best describes Freddie Keppard's historical importance?

The first musician to take New Orleans ensemble to Chicago and LA

Buddy Bolden is widely considered the first jazz musician to develop a distinct personal style.

True

In nineteenth-century America, people were legally considered black if their heritage included a "single drop" of black blood.

True

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band favored collective improvisation over soloistic features.

True

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band helped to popularize jazz in Europe.

True

The majority of Uptown Negroes could not read music.

True

The trombonist in a New Orleans jazz band usually plays fewer notes than the clarinetist.

True

Which instruments are included in the front line of a New Orleans jazz band?

Trumpet/Cornet, Trombone, and Clarinet

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers recordings are significant because they:

Were recorded right after the change from acoustic to electrical technology

Which aspect of Buddy Bolden's playing did contemporary observers note most often?

individualism