Chapter 15 Reading Quiz
In which phase did jazz transform into a true popular music, becoming the dance music of an entire generation?
1920s to 1950s
In which phase of jazz's history did it first spread around the world?
1920s to 1950s
In which phase was jazz first challenged by rock 'n' roll and R&B, and fell from the popular spotlight in the United States?
1950s to 1970s
Cécile McLorin Salvant has formed a fruitful musical relationship with her longtime pianist
Aaron Diehl
The particular style of music developed in South Africa is called
Cape Jazz
Abdullah Ibrahim was born in
Cape Town, South Africa
All of the following pianists were born after 1960 except Vijay Iyer Brad Mehldau Danilo Perez Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
This jazz vocalist studied law in France as a teenager:
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Which artist created a song called "We Are America," which protested the incarcerations in Guantanamo Bay?
Esperanza Spalding
Who was the first jazz musician to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist?
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding was born and raised in
Portland, Oregon
A pianist who has lately instigated a conversation between jazz and South Indian (Carnatic) styles is
Vijay Iyer
Cécile McLorin Salvant's critically acclaimed 2013 album that truly launched her career was
WomanChild
Jazz players today
are better equipped than ever before
Which of the following narratives can be used to understand the overall development of jazz throughout its history?
jazz as an art music jazz as fusion jazz and historicism
The newest phase of jazz has been strongly affected by the involvement of most of its musicians in
jazz education
In addition to music, Vijay Iyer was trained in
mathematics and physics
Calling jazz "classical music" means that
one can recognize old jazz styles while allowing for new jazz styles.
Esperanza Spalding
plays the upright bass guitar, is a jazz vocalist, and is a jazz composer
In the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, jazz
shifted from a popular music to a marginal listener's music.
What makes Cécile McLorin Salvant's rise to prominence even more remarkable is
the heavily entrenched pantheon of jazz singers is so forbiddingly secure
Contemporary jazz musicians share a lingua franca, which means
they have in common a style of improvisation grounded in bebop yet open to innovation
In the last of the four historical phases listed in the textbook (a period that includes the present) jazz has become
weighed down by its historical legacy
In her recording, "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues," Cécile McLorin Salvant revitalizes an almost 100-year-old song recorded by
Ida Cox
The initial phase of jazz (i.e., its genesis) occurred
from the 1890s to the 1920s
