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