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Question #1

All of the following contributed to the American embrace of bossa nova EXCEPT:

A Touring musicians discovered the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

B Bossa nova’s aggressive rhythms fit the revolutionary spirit of 1960s America.

C The Cuban Revolution led to an embargo on Cuban cultural imports.

D Saxophonist Stan Getz recorded several bossa nova records after his association with guitarist Charlie Byrd.

Question #2

Bossa nova emerged in the 1950s as a new twist on which traditional Latin American tradition?

A salsa

B merengue

C son

D samba

Question #3

Which is NOT true of clave as used in Cuban music and Afro-Cuban jazz?

A It is the foundation for the contrasting rhythms played by the rest of the ensemble.

B Clave is the Spanish word for “keystone.”

C Clave originated in Cuba.

D It is an asymmetrical, two-measure rhythmic pattern.

Question #4

Which of the following was an American dance craze based on Cuban music?

A mambo

B cha-cha-cha

C rumba

D all of the answers

Question #5

What was Frank Sinatra’s primary goal as a singer?

A to communicate the meaning of the lyrics through his phrasing

B to perform with perfect rhythmic accuracy

C to sing long phrases without breathing

D to blend into the ensemble like an instrumentalist

Question #6

Which is NOT a reason why the 1950s are described as a golden age for singers of the great American songbook?

A Singers abandoned jazz and swing styles, updating the songbook with fresh new pop arrangements.

B A large repertory of high-quality songs had been created between the 1920s and the 1950s.

C There were many gifted vocalists.

D The rise of television helped sustain the careers of established performers.

Question #7

Which jazz label released the soul jazz hits “Watermelon Man,” “The Sidewinder,” and “Song for My Father” in the 1960s?

A Prestige

B Riverside

C Blue Note

D Columbia

Question #8

Through his use of bluesy piano chords and a group of background singers, Ray Charles maintained a close connection with which American musical tradition?

A ragtime

B gospel

C blues

D bebop

Question #9

Which bandleader is most closely associated with “jump” music, which grew into rhythm and blues?

A Cab Calloway

B Louis Jordan

C Louis Armstrong

D Lionel Hampton

Question #10

In Chapter 16, the textbook authors define “fusion” as all music situated on the boundary between jazz and:

A popular music

B gospel music

C classical music

D world music

Question #11

This musician single-handedly made the bass clarinet a significant instrument in jazz.

A Benny Goodman

B John Coltrane

C Eric Dolphy

D Sonny Rollins

Question #12

What1961 recording captured a thirty-seven minute collective improvisation by a group that Ornette Coleman referred to as his Double Quartet.

A Free Jazz

B Song X

C The Shape of Jazz to Come

D Tomorrow is the Question

Question #13

In the 1970s, musicians dedicated to free improvisation undertook a mass migration to establish the loft scene of which major city?

A Los Angeles

B New York

C Chicago

D Paris

Question #14

After studying black nationalism and Egyptian history, Sun Ra developed a personal mythology surrounding which planet?

A Saturn

B Mercury

C Earth

D Mars

Question #15

Which major jazz figure, who had established credentials by mastering bebop, served as an unofficial referee in debates about avant-garde jazz?

A Miles Davis

B John Coltrane

C Bill Evans

D Dizzy Gillespie

Question #16

Before leading his own ensemble, Cecil Taylor trained in what musical idiom?

A swing

B classical

C bebop

D blues

Question #17

What was the name of Ornette Coleman’s bassist on his 1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come?

A Scott La Faro

B Charles Mingus

C Paul Chambers

D Charlie Haden

Question #18

Ornette Coleman’s 1959 residency at this New York club established him as a major player in avant-garde jazz and one of the most divisive figures of the era.

A Minton’s Playhouse

B The Village Vanguard

C Birdland

D The Five Spot

Question #19

Which of the following titles was NOT used to describe the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s?

A free jazz

B anti-jazz

C post-jazz

D Black Music

Question #20

The first wave of avant-garde art was inspired by all of the following innovations EXCEPT:

A new technology that enabled rapid communication across long distances

B the expansion of women’s rights

C the emergence of African American artists as equal to their white counterparts

D he devastation of World War I

Question #21

What is the original context of the term avant-garde?

A theater

B military

C philosophy

D visual art

Question #22

Which John Coltrane album was dedicated to a spiritual higher power, or G-d?

A Sun Ship

B A Love Supreme

C Giant Steps

D My Favorite Things

Question #23

Who were the saxophonists on Kind of Blue?

A Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane

B Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan

C Charlie Parker and Lester Young

D Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt

Question #24

Who was the drummer in Miles Davis’ first great quintet?

A Jimmy Cobb

B Tony Williams

C Philly Jo Jones

D Elvin Jones

Question #25

Which musician served as a primary composer within Miles Davis’s second great quintet?

A Gil Evans

B Miles Davis

C Wayne Shorter

D John Coltrane

Question #26

Which John Coltrane composition is considered a test pattern for music students attempting to master fast-moving harmonies?

A So What

B Giant Steps

C Ascension

D Blue Trane

Question #27

Which Bill Evans composition, featured on Kind of Blue, makes use of a ten-measure chord sequence with no obvious beginning or ending?

A Very Early

B Freddie Freeloader

C Blue in Green

D So What

Question #28

Miles Davis and Gil Evans conceived of Miles Ahead as an extension and expansion of which earlier recording?

A Sketches of Spain

B Milestones

C The Birth of the Cool

D Kind of Blue

Question #29

Which of the following is NOT the title of an album recorded by Miles Davis’s first great quintet and released on the independent Prestige label?

A Jammin’

B Cookin’

C Workin’

D Relaxin’

Question #30

At age nineteen Miles Davis was hired to record with which bebop figure?

A Dizzy Gillespie

B Max Roach

C Charlie Parker

D Thelonious Monk

Question #31

Throughout his career, Miles Davis relentlessly experimented with each of the following elements except:

A intonation

B harmony

C instrumentation

D melody

Question #32

Why is Miles Davis considered the most important figure in postwar jazz?

A He invented the theory behind modal jazz.

B He was the most consistent in his musical output over two decades.

C He had a great capacity for change.

D He was the most vocal advocate of Civil Rights.

Question #33

This Miles Davis album popularized the modal approach to jazz improvisation.

A Walkin’

B Birth of the Cool

C Kind of Blue

D Milestones

Question #34

Thelonious Monk mentored this younger pianist helping to connect him/her to the inner circle of bebop innovators.

A Bud Powell

B Bill Evans

C Marian McPartland

D Mary Lou Williams

Question #35

George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept forms the basis for which approach to jazz improvisation?

A modalism

B fusion

C harmonic substitution

D bebop

Question #36

All of the following are signature aspects of Gil Evans’s arrangements EXCEPT:

A a wide range of instrumental registers

B sonorous slow-moving chords

C a close musical connection to the harmonies and textures of the original composition

D generous use of counterpoint

Question #37

Although he composed original works, Gil Evans is known primarily as:

A a pianist

B a music theorist

C a concert organizer

D an arranger

Question #38

What was the political message of Charles Mingus’s “Fables of Faubus”?

A It was pro-integration.

B It was pro-communist.

C It criticized President Eisenhower.

D It was pro-women’s rights.

Question #39

In 1957, Thelonious Monk played a long engagement at the Five Spot with which important tenor saxophonist?

A Sonny Rollins

B John Coltrane

C Ben Webster

D Charlie Rouse

Question #40

Which is the most widely recorded of Thelonious Monk’s early compositions?

A ’Round Midnight

B Hackensack

C Epistrophy

D Ruby, My Dear

Question #41

Forward-thinking jazz composers of the 1950s combined modern jazz style with all of the following traditional elements EXCEPT:

A short breaks

B classical chamber music forms

C standard jazz and pop themes

D stride piano

Question #42

Which pianist worked to bring together the baroque polyphony of J. S. Bach and the rhythmic feeling of the blues.

A Dave Brubeck

B Lennie Tristano

C John Lewis

D Horace Silver

Question #43

Cool jazz and hard bop are divergent schools that both developed from the shared practices of ________ of the 1940s.

A Modal Jazz

B Dixieland Jazz

C Be bop

D Swing

Question #44

Which drummer’s band served as a training ground or showcase for many modern jazz musicians, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, Hank Mobley, and Cedar Walton?

A Kenny Clarke

B Philly Jo Jones

C Art Blakey

D Max Roach

Question #45

Which 1948 change in audio technology enabled musicians to release records with around twenty minutes of music per side?

A 45-rpm records

B wire recorders

C stereo recording

D 33 ⅓-rpm microgroove LPs

Question #46

Which school of 1950s jazz emphasized heavy, dark timbres; featured tenor saxophone more often than alto; and used an assertive, hard-swinging drumming style?

A Modal Jazz

B Third Stream

C Hard Bop

D Cool Jazz

Question #47

This arranger’s apartment on 55th Street in New York became an important meeting place for progressive musicians in the 1950s.

A John Lewis

B Gunther Schuller

C Claude Thornhill

D Gil Evans

Question #48

All of the following were creative goals of the Miles Davis Nonet EXCEPT:

A an insistent pulse for dancers

B warm timbres emphasizing each instrument’s middle range

C a balance between composition and improvisation

D a more relaxed pace than bebop

Question #49

When did the word “jazz” achieve its present-day historical meaning?

A during the Swing Era, when jazz was the nation’s popular music

B in the late 1960s, when avant-garde improvisers began denying the influence of jazz

C in the 1920s, when New Orleans jazz began to spread worldwide

D in the aftermath of bop, when the multiplicity of schools made a unifying term necessary

Question #50

Which of the following is NOT the ideological schism between fans of different schools of jazz performance?

A hard bop fans shunning Dizzy Gillespie as a corporate sell-out

B swing fans shunning bebop as undanceable

C Dixieland fans shunning Louis Armstrong’s embrace of popular songs

D bebop fans shunning the 1960s avant-garde as noise

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