Chapter 5 Quiz
Paul Whiteman hired ______ to be the full-time featured vocalist with his orchestra.
Bing Crosby
Among the jazz soloists added to the Paul Whiteman Band in the mid-1920s was(were)
Bix Beiderbecke
The following soloist, whose unusual timbres arose from his mastery of mutes, enriched Duke Ellington's early recordings:
Bubber Miley
True or False: Like Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson came from a disadvantaged background in New Orleans, steeped in the blues.
False
True or False: The Harlem Renaissance celebrated jazz musicians and bandleaders alongside its poets, painters, and playwrights.
False
George Gershwin composed and performed
Rhapsody in Blue
The center of the songwriting industry in New York was known colloquially as
Tin Pan Alley
Stride style is defined by
a left-hand technique, alternating bass notes and chords
Duke Ellington's compositions number
over a thousand
Jazz nightlife was affected by the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which
prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol.
Jazz was transformed by the following technological advancements, new in the 1920s:
radio, electrical recording, and movies
Although its specialty was the finest in Harlem jazz, the Cotton Club
refused to admit black patrons
The player piano was especially useful for disseminating the following jazz style:
stride piano
The bandleader and composer Duke Ellington was also a
stride piano player
Rhapsody in Blue's premier in 1924 featured
the Paul Whiteman orchestra
Among the great stride virtuosos of the 1920s was the following pianist, whose composition "Carolina Shout" became a test-piece for the New York elite:
James P. Johnson
Among the musicians hired by Fletcher Henderson in the 1920s was
Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby's vocal style was inspired by
Louis Armstrong
This bandleader, widely known as the "King of Jazz," was an early pop superstar who championed "symphonic jazz":
Paul Whiteman