Name: 9th grade Music Days: Mr. Roach

Jazz Worksheet Part II (All answers will be provided in class, you are responsible for taking notes in whichever way works best

for you) Part 6: bop

1) Provide the dates for the bop era.

2) List the 7 characteristics of bop music.

3) Describe a typical bop form

4) Describe the instrumentation of bop

5) Who is Dizzy Gillespie and when did he live

6) Why is his trumpet bell bent?

7) Listening Example 16 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

8) Who is Thelonious Monk and what when did he live?

9) Thelonious Monk is the 2nd most recorded jazz composer behind what other composer?

10) Listening Example 17

Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

11) Who is Charlie Parker and when did he live?

12) Charlie Parker died from what?

13) Listening Example 18 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

14) Who is Max Roach and when did he live?

15) Who did Max Roach Perform with?

16) Who is Miles Davis and when did he live?

17) What is the name of devices that Miles Davis used to change the sound of his trumpet?

18) List the dates and names of the different time periods of Mile’s life.

19) Listening Example 19 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

20) Who is John Coltrane and when did he live?

21) What did John Coltrane use in his solos?

22) Listening Example 20 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

Part 7: West Coast Jazz

23) Where and when was West Coast Jazz Developed?

24) Who was the leader of west coast jazz and what instrument did he play?

25) Listening Example 21 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

26) What is the instrumentation of a combo?

Part 8: Free Jazz

27) What is free jazz?

28) Provide the dates and one fact about free jazz.

29) What is collective improvisation?

30) Who was Charles Mingus and when did he live?

31) What was Charles Mingus an innovator of?

32) Listening Example 22 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

Part 9: Jazz Fusion/Jazz Rock

33) When was jazz fusion developed?

34) Jazz fusion combined what two genres of music?

35) Name one famous jazz fusion artist?

36) Listening Example 23 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

37) Who was Maynard Ferguson and when did he live?

38) What was Maynard able to do that most other trumpet players dreamed of?

39) Listening Example 24 Composer: Soloist: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

40) Who is Michael Brecker and when did he live?

41) What is the name of the unique instrument Brecker played?

42) Listening Example 25 Composer: Title: Solo Trumpet: Date: Style: Additional Information:

Part 10: Smooth Jazz

43) Provide the dates and one characteristic of Smooth Jazz

44) List one smooth jazz performer and the date when they were born

45) Listening Example 26 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

46) Kenny G has the Guinness book of world records for doing what in music? Part 11: Present day Jazz-Modern Jazz

47) Provide the dates for present day jazz

48) Who is Herbie Hancock and when was he born?

49) What is the name of the unique instrument that Herbie played

50) Listening Example 27 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

51) Who is Wynton Marsalis and when was he born

52) Wynton is the director of what music program?

53) Listening Example 28 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

54) Who is Gordon Goodwin and when was he born?

55) What is the name of Gordon Goodwin’s band

56) Listening Example 29 Composer: Title: Date: Style: Additional Information:

57) Jazz harmony came from __________________. Jazz instruments came from _____________. Jazz rhythm came from_______________, thus causing jazz to be a melting pot of many different cultures.