Question 8
Cool Jazz
A "mellow" "West Coast" jazz style developed in the 1950s.
Free Jazz
A "random" loosely-structured style of jazz promoted by Coleman.
Fusion
A combination of Jazz and Rock styles.
Swing
A jazz style prominent in the 1930s-50s, associated with artists such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie, and featuring a large ensemble of musicians.
Hot Jazz
A lively early style of "Dixieland" jazz developed in the 1920s/30s.
Scat singing
A style of improvised jazz singing on colorful nonsense syllables.
Orchestral Jazz
A symphonic style that incorporates certain elements of jazz, but has no improvisation.
Big Band
A white, more heavily-arranged adaptation of "swing" associated with artists such as Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
Jazz "Rhythm Section"
Usually Bass, Piano/Guitar and Drums.
Bebop
An intensely improvisatory/virtuosic style of jazz developed in the 1950s
Boogie Woogie
An outgrowth of Rhythm & Blues with its well-known "8-to-the-bar rhythmic structure