Jazz Part 2

What did swing contribute into American culture

Hipsters and lindy-hoppers

What are the most important dances of swing

jitterbug or lindy-hop

What was one of the few places white and black couples could dance on the same floor

Savoy Ballroom

What was Savoy’s premier lindy-hoppers?

Whitney’s Lindy Hoppers

What type of riffs are in swing music

simple riffs

Bebop characteristics 

angular and irregularly accented melodies, extending the harmonic palette, instense and blues expressivity, bravura virtuosity

Where did Bebop borrow chord preogressions from

Great American Songbook

Which tune would be used a sa basis for new bebop compositions

cherokee

Who is credited with having brought the polyrhythms of afro-cuba music to bebop?

dizzy gillespie

What was the first afro cuban jazz composition

manteca

Who was directly involved in the establishment of jazz (bebop, modal and cool jazz, free jazz, electric jazz, and fusion.)

Miles Dewey Davis

What is “third stream”

Synthesizing classical music with jazz

Where was cool jazz developed

West Coast

Whta is one of the most widely successful cool jazz tunes?

Take Five by Dave Brubeck

What is free jazz or anti-jazz

freeing the structure of jazz from melody, harmony, meter,

who was free jazz’s innovative spiritual leader?

Ornette Coleman

Who was the most significant jazz musician of all time

John Coltrane

Who spearheaded the preservation of historical performance

Wynton Marsalis

What is acid jazz

jazz fusion of hip-hop and techno-dance

Which group is the enormously popular group that creates music that is easy to listen to with minimal amounts of improvisation.

Spyro Gyro