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1929 – 1934 -Made over 500 records.
1933 – In New York he got his first big break when he met
jazz impresario John Hammond.
Hammond helped him start his own orchestra.
His next big break was a spot on nationally broadcast NBC
radio program “Let’s Dance.”
a.Benny Goodman
12. (1917 – 1996). ________________ is widely regarded as the
greatest scat singer in the history of jazz.
a.Ella Fitzgerald
13. Swing-era Jazz Stars. The two Tenor Titans were?
a.Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young
14. Reserved for whites only, the _________ was a vestige of
the Jim Crow South. The name itself was a slap in the face to
blacks, evoking the memory of the crop most associate with slavery
and plantations. The exterior to the club had a log cabin façade,
while the backdrop to the stage was a replica of a plantation
house. There were murals depicting primitive African life on the
wall. The band played “Jungle Music” while dancers performed in
elaborate, risqué floor shows that had themes of darkness, danger,
and Africa.
a.The Cotton Club
15. __________________ embarked on a series of experimental
recording, including “Digression” and “Intuition,” two spontaneous
improvisations that has no set form orkey center, and are today
considered the be the first free jazz recordings (although Ornette
Coleman is credited with this movement nearly a decade later).
a.Lennie Tristano
16. ____________________ was put together in two separate
sessions from sketches that Miles brought in on scraps of paper.
There was no rehearsing ahead of time so that there would be a
great amount of spontaneity. Most of the songs on the album are
first takes. It was a landmark recording that was both highly
influential to jazz musicians and an extraordinarily east listen
for casual jazz fans.
a.Kind of Blue
17. This arrangement of ________________ shows Henderson’s
band utilizing big band arranging techniques that would later be
widely copied during the swing era.
a.Tribute to Duke Ellington
18. The following statement refers to what?
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