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1

The cool style is often described as
A)music for dancing
B)“chamber music jazz”
C)a return to the roots
D)angular, unison melodic improvisation
2

The style that sacrifices excitement for subtlety and virtuosity for underplaying is
A)swing
B)cool
C)bebop
D)stride
3

Among the instruments new to jazz that became important during the cool period were
A)flugelhorn and French horn
B)flute and oboe
C)all of the above
D)none of the above
4

The Woody Herman Band’s recording of Ralph Burn’s “Early Autumn” launched the career of
A)Clark Terry
B)Zoot Sims
C)Stan Getz
D)Jimmie Giaffre
5

Who led a famous Cool Style pianoless quartet?
A)Stan Getz
B)Gerry Mulligan
C)Gil Evan
D)Miles Davis
6

The recording sessions led by Miles Davis in 1949–50 produced which of the following hallmark albums of jazz?
A)“Porgy and Bess”
B)“Birth of the Cool”
C)“Summer Sequence”
D)“Miles Ahead”
7

The musical experiments of the Cool Era led to a mixing of jazz and classical traditionals that was eventually know as
A)fusion
B)abstraction
C)third stream
D)dual modality
8

While jazz has often “borrowed” from classical music (especially during the Cool Era) classical composers never “borrowed” from jazz.
A)true
B)false
9

Many west coast jazz players were alumni of the
A)Duke Ellington Band
B)Stan Kenton Band
C)Benny Goodman Band
D)Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
10

Just as New York’s Minton’s Playhouse had been the center of the bop community, which of the following was a center of the west coast style?
A)The Onyx Club
B)Howard Rumsy’s Lighthouse
C)Bob Reisner’s Open Door
D)The Palomas Ballroom
11

The tonal sonorities of cool jazz are often compared to pastel colors.
A)true
B)false
12

Rather than the tight unisons of bebop, the cool style reverted to the use of
A)homophonic structure
B)polyphony
C)portamento
D)modality
13

Among the jazz soloists, whose solo work anticipated the cool style?
A)Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
B)Bix Biederbecke and Lester Young
C)Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
D)Bunny Berigan and Roy Eldridge
14

Which two pianists—one east coast and one west coast—brought more esoteric compositional concerns to the new cool style of jazz?
A)Thelonius Monk and Stan Kenton
B)Lennie Tristano and Dave Brubeck
C)Teddy Wilson and Walter Bishop
D)Billy Taylor and Ralph Burns
15

What instrument, often heard in dixieland, returned to jazz as a melodic voice during the cool era?
A)cornet
B)banjo
C)tuba
D)clarinet





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