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Test 2

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  Duke Ellington Band
B  Count Basie Band
C  Benny Goodman Band
D  Jimmy Lunceford Band
Question #2
A  True
B  FALSE
Question #5
A  played only in large theaters
B  Toured in a limited geographic area
C  marked their “territory” by street brawls
D  Never traveled at all
Question #6
A  Head Arrangements
B  Collective Improvisation
C  Slow ballads
D  Complex written arrangements
Question #7
A  front phrasing
B  back phrasing
C  rhythmic displacement
D  Scat Singing
Question #8
A  The All American Rhythm Section
B  The Red, White, and Blues
C  The Band
D  The Swing Kings
Question #9
A  Jitterbuggin
B  In the Mood
C  Sing, Sing, Sing
D  Dance, Dance, Dance
Question #11
A  The Rhythm Kings
B  The King Pleasure Band
C  Count Basie and his Barons of Rhythm
D  Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians
Question #12
A  very similar to Lester Young’s
B  Impossible to describe
C  lighter than Lester Young’s
D  darker than Lester Young’s
Question #13
A  Sister Girl
B  Lady Day
C  Little Miss Sassy
D  The Voice
Question #14
A  Harry “Sweets” Edison
B  Buddy DeFranco
C  Lester Young
D  Ben Webster
Question #16
A  Brooklyn, NY
B  Chicago, Ill
C  The Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, NY
D  Cleveland, OH
Question #17
A  A complex arrangement requiring many hours of preparation and rehearsal.
B  An arrangement which allows band members to alternate bathroom breaks.
C  An informal arrangement often worked out collectively in rehearsal or even during performance.
D  None of the Above
Question #19
A  Fletcher Henderson Band
B  Count Basie Band
C  Duke Ellington Band
D  Casa Loma Band
Question #20
A  Baritone Saxophone
B  Bass
C  Tuba
D  Bass Trombone
Question #22
A  drums
B  drums and saxophone
C  drums and tuba
D  drums and bass
Question #23
A  Teddy Wilson
B  Wilson Pickett
C  Fats Waller
D  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
Question #24
A  All the Things You Are
B  Embraceable You
C  Darn That Dream
D  Body and Soul
Question #25
A  Lester Young
B  Benny Carter
C  Roy Eldridge
D  Coleman Hawkins
Question #26
A  Clarinetists
B  Clarinetists and bandleaders
C  Trumpet players
D  Trombonists
Question #28
A  “Thriller”
B  ”A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
C  “A Fine Romance”
D  “Object of My Affection”
Question #29
A  Virtuoso scatting abilities
B  Acute rhythmic and tonal finesse
C  Emotional/psychological depth
D  Conversational style
Question #30
A  Ella Fitzgerald
B  Anita Baker
C  Billie Holiday
Question #31
A  Billie Holiday
B  Anita O’Day
C  Ida Cox
D  Ella Fitzgerald
Question #32
A  He was coached on Hawkin’s style and sound in the hopes that he would adopt it
B  He was celebrated as a fresh new sound
C  He was immediately asked to lead the saxophone section
D  He was asked to switch to his first instrument, the drum set
Question #33
A  It established Hawkins as a top clarinetist
B  It’s an outstanding example of big band jazz
C  It features a double time trombone solo at the beginning
D  The tenor saxophone builds in range and dynamics to a climax
Question #34
A  Hell’s Kitchen
B  Greenwich Village
C  Brownsville, Brooklyn
D  52nd Street (Swing Street)
Question #35
A  New Orleans/Chicago
B  St.Louis/Kansas City
C  Chicago/New York
D  Los Angeles/New York
Question #36
A  An excellect all female band
B  a Fisk University glee club
C  a tap dancing collective
D  a children’s choir
Question #37
A  Billy Strayhorn
B  Billy Childs
C  Bill Bailey
D  Count Basie
Question #38
A  Ron Carter
B  Walter Page
C  James P Johnson
D  Jimmy Blanton
Question #39
A  Cootie Williams
B  Miles Davis
C  Ray Nance
D  Bubber Miley
Question #41
A  Walter Page
B  Jimmy Blanton
C  Jimmy Scott
D  Ira Coleman
Question #43
A  riff-based compositions
B  emphasized improvising soloists
C  blues-based compositions
D  use of complex written arrangements
Question #44
A  multi tracking
B  mixed voicing
C  Antiphonal
D  switch-hitting
Question #45
A  Jimmie Lunceford
B  Fletcher Henderson
C  George Gershwin
D  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
Question #46
A  Played a limited number of songs types
B  Played for mixed-race audiences
C  Played in a limited geographic region
D  Played in Mid-town Manhattan hotels
Question #47
A  Palladium
B  The Funky Butt Club
C  The Club Alabam
D  Savoy Ballroom
Question #48
A  the Lindy Hop
B  the Charleston
C  the Bump
D  the jerk
Question #49
A  Presentation, Precision, Polish
B  Practice, Practice, Practice
C  Pot, Practice, Petulance
D  Purpose, Profundity, Perspicacity
Question #50
A  a prominent disc jockey in New York City
B  one of the first white big bandleaders to adopt swing
C  a wealthy jazz patron who commissioned several major jazz compositions
D  an influential critic, band manager, record producer, and talent scout