Music 118B (Chapter 9 - Chapter 16)
Ornette Coleman recorded with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
False
Real fusion music only mixes jazz and rock styles.
False
The accordion became a popular instrument in Salsa bands of the 1970s.
False
The innovative saxophonist with Miles Davis's First Great Quintet was Wayne Shorter
False
As a result of the immense popularity of the record label Fania Records, Johnny Pacheco, founder and bandleader created a supergroup known as the _________________ that brought together the most elite Salsa musicians and singers for a string of joint performances and recordings.
Fania All-Stars
Which of the following is NOT a component of Miles Davis's trumpet style?
Focusing his improvisations in the upper register of the trumpet
This musician was a Mexican American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician known for his work as a vocalist and guitarist. His 1975 hit, "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" would win him a Gold Record.
Freddy Fender
Hard bop is a 1950s term used to designate styles that
Had roots in bop, but implemented elements of blues, gospel, funk, and R&B
Matching: album/artist
Head Hunters (correct) : Herbie Hancock Song X (correct) : Pat Metheny
Which fusion artist had a hit video on MTV?
Herbie Hancock
In addition to his ability to fuse bebop, soul, gospel, and R&B into his funky style of piano playing, ______________ brought an uncanny ability to create catchy and pleasing melodies into his hard bop compositions.
Horace Silver
Jazz-rock fusion styles were noted in Miles Davis's albums:
In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew
Trumpeter ____________ , violinist ______________, and drummer ______________, are among the most prominent women jazz musicians emerging on the scene during the 1980s and 1990s.
Ingrid Jensen ... Regina Carter ... Terri Lyne Carrington
Young British jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter who enjoyed a very successful performance on "Austin City Limits."
Jamie Cullum
Which modern jazz artist's performances include a combination of jazz, dance, and visual arts?
Jane Ira Bloom
Primarily playing in the bebop and hard bop idioms in the early part of his career, saxophonist _____________ would go on to pioneer progressive concepts of modal jazz and would be at the forefront of the avant-garde and free jazz movement in the 1960s.
John Coltrane
Soon after the 1959 release of Miles Davis's album Kind of Blue, jazz historian and author Ira Gitler coined the term "sheets of sound" to describe _____________ unique improvisational playing style.
John Coltrane's
___________ immense impact on the music world has led many critics and enthusiasts to describe him as one of jazz's most influential performers and composers. He also recorded the cutting-edge hard bop album titled Giant Steps.
John Coltrane's
Pop-oriented sax player who dominated the smooth jazz charts for many years.
Kenny G
Recorded in 1959, ____________ was one of the most historically significant albums in modern jazz in which mode-based improvisation was a central feature.
Kind of Blue
After twenty years as a vocal pop star, _____________ fulfilled a life-long dream of recording an album in Spanish based on songs from her childhood. Her 1987 album "Canciones de mi Padre" became the best-selling non-English language album in US history.
Linda Ronstadt
With which group was John McLaughlin associated?
Mahavishnu Orchestra
The albums titled Evanescence, Coming About, Concert in the Garden, Allegresse, and The Thompson Fields feature the beautifully impressionistic compositions and arrangements by this big band leader.
Maria Schneider
He was one of the most influential musicians of the last 30 years and was the leading voice of the tenor saxophone in the post-Coltrane years until his death in 2007.
Michael Brecker
The Miles Davis 1957-1963 First Great Quintet consisted of:
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
The tune ______________ was recorded in 1958 by the Miles Davis sextet for the Columbia Records label. All of the tracks on the album, except for this song, were rooted in the bebop and post-bop styles. But it was the title track that introduced modal jazz to the world and defined Miles Davis's subsequent music in the years that would follow.
Milestones
The 1959 Kind of Blue album was significant because it featured Miles Davis's pioneering the relatively new style of:
Modal jazz
________________ helped popularize Chicano rock music of the 1980s with the hit tune La Bamba, which was recorded for a movie about the life of Ritchie Valens.
None of the above
Miles Davis was unlike his bebop contemporaries on trumpet in that he:
Often remained in the middle to low registers
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Vocalist _________________, was a singer with the popular Salsa band "The Fania All-Stars."
All of the above
Miles Davis's most important contributions to modern jazz included:
All of the above: Each recording was significant
His hard bop compositions encompass a broad spectrum of musical influences, especially the music of Duke Ellington and the soulful eloquence of his gospel church roots. He also incorporates elements of the blues, bebop, work songs, Latin, Third Stream, free jazz, and European classical music.
Charles Mingus
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the hard bop style?
Chord progressions are more frequently borrowed from pop tunes
His biggest hit was "Feels So Good."
Chuck Mangione
Born mostly of musicians who came to New York from the nation's inner cities, especially _________ and __________, hard bop was said to reflect the intensity and hustling tempo of city life.
Detroit ..... Philadelphia
Jazz trumpeter _________________ collaborated with Mario Bauza and Chano Pozo and created a new movement called Cu-bop.
Dizzy Gillespie
Clarinet player who performed in a recent version of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and also sat in with the rock band Living Colour.
Don Byron
Trumpet player whose greatest claim to jazz fame is his association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman.
Don Cherry
EWI is short for:
Electronic Wind Instrument.
After a tumultuous adolescence, _____________ found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.
Ella Fitzgerald
The accolades of this jazz vocalist include fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ella Fitzgerald
While ______________ appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career.
Ella Fitzgerald
With the Verve Record Label, _____________ recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
Ella Fitzgerald
_______________ was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", and "Queen of Jazz".
Ella Fitzgerald
Some of _______________ best-known songs were "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".
Ella Fitzgerald's
Some critics consider the solo artist ______________________________ to be the next Billie Holiday.
Erykah Badu
Billie Holiday was known for her incredible vocal range and her inventive scat-singing skills.
FALSE
Billie Holiday was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
FALSE
Billie Holiday's rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost her career to national fame.
FALSE
Clarinet is Chick Corea's main instrument.
FALSE
Ella Fitzgerald was a jazz diva who became the stereotypical victim - unlucky in life, unlucky in love and dead from issues relating to alcohol and drug addiction at the age of only 44.
FALSE
Free jazz is usually very well organized and is often pre-arranged.
FALSE
In smooth jazz, elements of jazz improvisation and the traditions of the swing style outweigh commercial pop characteristics.
FALSE
In the late 1960s jazz was just as popular as rock and roll.
FALSE
Jazz musicians choose to perform in the free jazz format because they lack improvisational skills.
FALSE
Jimi Hendrix played on the album "Bitches Brew."
FALSE
M-Base—(short for "melody- based array of unstructured experimentation") is a concept of how to dismantle modern music, which reached its peak in the mid- to-late-80s and early 90s.
FALSE
Miles Davis broke up his fusion band in the mid-1980s and returned to performing cool jazz.
FALSE
On July 10, 1959, Ella Fitzgerald died in hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver. In a characteristically cruel twist she had been arrested on her deathbed for possession of narcotics and spent most of her final days under police guard.
FALSE
The Pat Metheny Group often features keyboard player Herbie Hancock.
FALSE
"Flamenco Sketches" was recorded on Miles Davis's album Milestones.
False
"St. Thomas," "Oleo," and "Valse Hot" were written by hard bop saxophonist Cannonball Adderley.
False
A typical Salsa band is comprised of piano, bass, drums, trumpets, trombones, and a wide variety of Latin percussion instruments. But very rarely does the music feature any vocalists.
False
Although trumpeter Clifford Brown never fully embraced the avant-garde and free jazz movement of the 1960s, he appeared on several of its historic albums including Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, and John Coltrane's Ascension.
False
Bandleader Mario Mauza was one of the first musicians to publicly acknowledge Africa in the naming of his band, The Afro-Cubans.
False
Fusion uses jazz-sounding melodies, harmonies, and rhythms but never improvisation.
False
In the later 1950s and early 1960s, Miles Davis began to experiment with fusion by incorporating funk, rock, and electronic instruments into his music.
False
Joy Spring is a hard bop composition written by Max Roach.
False
Max Roach was one of the first drum set players to incorporate the use of polyrhythms extensively in his solos. He also became famous for his thunderous press-roll and his driving shuffle pattern.
False
Miles Davis is most associated with using a cup mute to alter his sound to create a wispy and light tone quality.
False
Miles Davis's 1959 sextet with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto sax, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums, popularized modal jazz through the album Birth of the Cool.
False
Who on this list is considered the first pioneer of the free jazz movement?
Ornette Coleman
In addition to playing the guitar, John Pizzarelli:
Sings
Members of this group were "first call" musicians in New York City for recording sessions.
The Brecker Brothers
Which Puerto Rican musician revolutionized the role of the timbales and also incorporated elements of swing music into his Afro-Cuban performances.
Tito Puente
"M-base" is short for "Macro-Basic Array of Structured Extemporization."
True
"The Fania All-Stars" combined many strands of Afro-Cuban, Rock, Jazz, and Puerto Rican music together which created the Latin sound of the 1970s.
True
"This Here," composed by pianist Bobby Timmons, was recorded on the 1959 album titled The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco. This groundbreaking album, which some critics credit for launching the start of soul jazz, was recorded at The Jazz Workshop in front of an appreciative standing-room-only crowd.
True
After a six-year reclusive hiatus, Miles Davis started to play his trumpet again and worked hard at regaining the muscles in his embouchure. His first studio album since his comeback was recorded from June 1980 to May 1981 and was titled The Man with the Horn.
True
As a modern spokesman for jazz, Wynton Marsalis has a fairly conservative definition of jazz.
True
During his final years, Miles Davis revealed his interest in commercial and pop music by recording cover versions of two pop songs: "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper and "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson.
True
During the 1970s and 1980s, Sonny Rollins took an interest in pop, R&B, funk, and rock styles. He even crossed into the pop-rock genre when he added some sax improvisations to the Rolling Stones 1981 album Tattoo You.
True
Elements of Latin music can be found in the rhythms, chord progressions, and bass lines of early rock and roll songs.
True
Hard bop, especially the subgenres funky jazz and soul jazz, emphasize Gospel and blues elements.
True
In his later years, Miles Davis often played his trumpet into a microphone hooked up to electronic effects.
True
In the lineage of jazz trumpeters, Freddie Hubbard stands out as one of the fiercest and most sensational artists of the hard-bop and post-bop eras.
True
In the mid-1970s, Miles Davis was faced with numerous health problems which forced him into temporary retirement.
True
John Coltrane viewed the free jazz style of playing as a more pure expression of his spirituality.
True
Latin music of the 1930s and 1940s had a profound influence on rock and pop music of the 1960s.
True
Many country musicians are skilled improvisers.
True
Many current jazz artists have begun performing music that has been "audience tested" by radio stations.
True
Many hard bop musicians showed more concern for connecting with their audience by making the music more appealing both melodically and rhythmically.
True
Many of the performers on Miles Davis's 1970 studio album Bitches Brew, would become leading figures of the jazz fusion movement of the 1970s and 1980s: guitarist John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and electronic keyboardist Joe Zawinul (Weather Report), and electronic keyboardist and pianist Chick Corea (Return to Forever and The Chick Corea Elektric Band).
True
Miles Davis's two great quintets during the 1950s and 1960s produced some of the greatest small group jazz recordings of all time.
True
Miles in the Sky and Filles de Kilimanjaro, which tentatively introduced electric bass, electric piano, and electric guitar on some tracks pointed the way to the fusion phase of Miles Davis's career.
True
One current trend in jazz is to fuse pop and jazz into a style called Smooth Jazz.
True
Ornette Coleman believed that he could improvise more freely playing instruments on which he had little or no training.
True
Salsa music can be described as a fusion of rock, jazz, boogaloo, Cuban, and Puerto Rican influences.
True
Smooth jazz refers to uncomplicated, pleasant, easy-listening jazz that may or may not feature improvisation.
True
Some jazz purists do not regard fusion as a legitimate type of jazz.
True
Tejano music, which originated in the 1970s, refers to a style that combines Spanish lyrics and pop music gained a wide audience thanks to artists such as Selena, who is often referred to as "The Queen of Tejano."
True
Tex-Mex, a fusion of various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas first started out as a purely instrumental music without vocals.
True
The band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones mixes elements of country music and jazz, along with many other styles.
True
The mambo dance craze of the 1950s brought together a wide array of cultures including Jews, Italians, Latinos, and African-Americans, and enabled mixed cultures to co-exist.
True
The personnel of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet included Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums.
True
The second generation of Puerto Rican immigrants who settled in New York brought with them the Plena and Bomba which were genres of music and dance rhythms native to Puerto Rico. These two styles in turn helped to influence the development of Salsa.
True
Though the band members are all great improvisers, some critics consider the musical style of the band Spyro Gyra to be predictable.
True
Today, both Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock perform both electric fusion and straight-ahead acoustic jazz.
True
Today, fusion refers to a mixture of jazz and any other musical style.
True
Two powerful voices that emerged on the hard bop scene that benefited with successful careers and widespread popularity following their affiliation with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers were trumpeters Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.
True
Current director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Wynton Marsalis
______________ was born in New Orleans in 1961. At age 14, he debuted with the New Orleans Philharmonic playing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. At age 17, he began studies at the Julliard School of Music in New York and soon after, joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Wynton Marsalis
Which most accurately describes the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra:
a repertory band
Jazz-rock fusion is:
a type of music made popular by Miles Davis.
Classical musician(s)/composer(s) who influenced Cecil Taylor.
all of the above
John Coltrane recordings in the free jazz style.
all of the above
Other industry label(s) for smooth jazz.
all of the above
Referred to as "young lions" in the jazz world of the late 1980s and early 90s.
all of the above
Electric keyboard player(s) featured on Miles Davis' early fusion albums include:
all of the above.
What is The Majesty of the Blues:
an album marking a turning point in Wynton Marsalis's career
Ornette Coleman:
began his career playing rhythm and blues
Which of these styles most often makes use of postmodernism:
contemporary avant-garde
Chick Corea's album "Return to Forever:"
explores the use of art-rock and classical music styles in jazz.
In recent years, Ornette Coleman has embraced a broader array of musical styles, including adding electronic sound and synthesizer loops, called:
free funk
Which best describes M-Base:
free jazz/funk hybrid
Which is NOT a reason that Wynton Marsalis has been controversial:
his use of hip-hop and rap elements
As featured in your textbook, "Birdland" was recorded by:
none of the above.
What is Cecil Taylor's instrument?
piano
In free jazz, instrumentalists tend to:
play in a very harsh and aggressive manner.
Avant-garde:
refers to new and unconventional trends in the arts.
Which is true of Pat Metheny:
writes 'Americana, folk-like' compositions
Saxophonists Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, and Kenny Garrett all made impressive contributions in the jazz world during the 1980s and 1990s.
TRUE
The 1999 film "First Lady of Song" showcases the nearly 60-year career of Ella Fitzgerald.
TRUE
The Pat Metheny Group often features keyboard player Lyle Mays.
TRUE
The band Return to Forever covered a vast musical territory exploring jazz, rock, Latin styles, and even elements of classical music.
TRUE
The piano and guitar are often avoided in free jazz groups because they can inadvertently imply an unwanted sense of tonality.
TRUE
__________________ final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958.
Billie Holiday's
Tower of Power has a strong horn section, and all the members of the group have good improvisation skills.
TRUE
The band Us3 has a unique convergence of hip- hop and jazz, occasionally taking digital samples from 1950s and 1960s hard bop recordings and building grooves from them.
TRUE
Unlike John Coltrane, who ventured off into avant-garde and free jazz styles, ______________ stayed true to his hard bop and soul jazz roots throughout his career. His playing style often drew comparisons to that of Charlie Parker.
Cannonball Adderley
After a turbulent childhood, ____________ began singing in nightclubs in Harlem where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard.
Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starred Diana Ross, and was released in 1972.
Billie Holiday
She cut her first record at the age of 18 and, by the time she was 23, she had recorded with most of the great names in jazz - including Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Artie Shaw.
Billie Holiday
She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. And in 1973, she was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Billie Holiday
Cuban born singer, ______________ helped to ignite the popularity of Salsa music when she was featured with the Fania All-Stars in the 1970s.
Celia Cruz
Though she was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, _____________ bad health, coupled with a string of abusive relationships and ongoing drug and alcohol abuse, caused her voice to wither.
Billie Holiday's
This Miles Davis album reached number 35 on the "Billboard" pop chart and sold over 400,000 copies in 1970 alone.
"Bitches Brew"
______________________________ is one of the most controversial jazz recordings ever released.
"Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation"
The two Miles Davis albums that introduced jazz-rock fusion to the general public.
"In a Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew"
The Pat Metheny tune "Third Wind" comes from which album?
"Road to You—Live in Europe"
Which musician is NOT associated with the contemporary jazz avant-garde:
Art Blakey
Which ensemble mixed traditional jazz instruments with many types of percussion instruments in addition to other unusual instruments?
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Pianist Herbie Hancock has had acting roles in several Hollywood feature films.
TRUE
This San Francisco based band, which fused rock, blues, and Afro-Cuban percussion performed at Woodstock in 1969 and became one of the most successful international debuts in popular music history.
Santana
Moving away from bebop's tradition of harmonic improvisation over the designated chord progressions, ____________ would typically paraphrase motives or key phrases from the melody of the tune and would incorporate them as the basis for his improvisation, while developing them into longer and more elaborate phrases. This type of soloing is known as motivic improvisation.
Sonny Rollins
Artist who adopted a stage persona from outer space. His shows featured outrageous free jazz performances mixed with more standard jazz tunes by people such as Duke Ellington
Sun Ra
Billie Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education.
TRUE
Billie Holiday was nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, tenor saxophonist Lester Young.
TRUE
Cecil Taylor makes use of twentieth-century classical piano techniques.
TRUE
Collective improvisation is often an important part of free jazz and avant-garde styles.
TRUE
Critics often compare the compositional writing style of Wynton Marsalis to that of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.
TRUE
Eschewing many of the stylistic and innovative advancements of the recent past, the Neo-traditional (or Neo-conservative) Movement stems in part from a vision that was first stated by writer Albert Murray in his 1976 book Stomping the Blues.
TRUE
European audiences are generally more receptive to free jazz than American audiences.
TRUE
For many avant-garde musicians, their stage appearance was an integral part of the performance.
TRUE
Free jazz performances rely on a great deal of spontaneous interplay between the musicians.
TRUE
In 1975, guitarist Pat Metheny recorded his first solo album titled Bright Size Life, with bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses.
TRUE
In 1983, at the age of 22, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis became the first and only recording artist to win a jazz and classical Grammy Award in the same year.
TRUE
Jaco Pastorius played bass with the band Weather Report.
TRUE
John Coltrane's later recordings were mostly free jazz.
TRUE
Ornette Coleman recorded with Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
TRUE
