Jazz

"Scat singing," which Louis Armstrong introduced into jazz, is ______.

When a voice is answered by an instrument, or when one instrument (or group of instruments) is answered by a chorus, the pattern is referred to as ______.

A new respectability for jazz was symbolized in 1938 when Benny Goodman gave an historic concert at ______.

Which of the following jazz elements is not derived from West African traditions?

A typical bebop group might include ______.

The typical swing band had about fifteen musicians, grouped into these three sections.

Bebop differed from earlier jazz forms in that it _______.

Bebop, as a musical style, developed in the _______.

The rhythm section of a swing band normally consisted of ______.

The jazz style called swing flourished in America from ______.

Cool jazz ______.

Duke Ellington was an important figure in ______.

The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was ______.

The most distinctive feature of New Orleans style jazz was ______.

In jazz, each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a ______.

The blues ______.

Jazz performers sometimes "bend" tones to ______.

The immediate sources of jazz include ______.

Ragtime flourished in the United States ______.

One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist _______.

The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its ______.

The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock is ______.

Ragtime is _______.