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1
During the 1960s, this controversial jazz player exerted perhaps the largest influence on jazz improvisation and composition:
A)Miles Davis
B)Charles Mingus
C)Stan Kenton
D)Dave Brubeck
2
Free collective improvisation was introduced into jazz by:
A)Charles Mingus
B)Red Allen
C)Miles Davis
D)Ornette Coleman
3
The cover of Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" album originally released in 1961 had a cover painting by this artist:
A)Andy Warhol
B)Jackson Pollock
C)Mark Rothko
D)none of the above
4
"Sheets of sound" is associated with this jazz performer:
A)Ornette Coleman
B)John Coltrane
C)Charles Mingus
D)McCoy Tyner
5
Music that combines jazz and classical music is called:
A)classic jazz
B)Jazz classics
C)Orchestral jazz
D)Third Stream
6
Fusion is the combination of jazz with:
A)classical music
B)ethnic music
C)folk music
D)rock music
7
Which recording (from 1963) spawned the genre of Fusion?
A)A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
B)Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
C)Steps out of Time by Dave Brubeck
D)Groovin High by Gunther Schuller
8
The first jazz album to be certified gold was:
A)A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
B)Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
C)Birdland by Weather Report
D)Headhunters by Herbie Hancock
9
Which group represented a New York answer to West Coast "cool jazz" and a black response to the intellectualism of the music of the Dave Brubeck Quartet?
A)Modern Jazz Quartet
B)Chick Corea's Electrik Band
C)Weather Report
D)none of the above
10
"Neo-conservative" jazz was initiated by the bandleader:
A)Chick Corea
B)Lionel Hampton
C)Wynton Marsalis
D)Wayne Shorter
11
Which decade became the first decade in the history of jazz to have no defining movements?
A)1980s
B)1970s
C)2000s
D)1990s
12
Which "movement" seeks to emancipate noise?
A)Fusion
B)electronica
C)Industrial jazz
D)no wave
13
Which jazz composer/performer was most influenced by the philosophies of John Cage?
A)Henry Threadgill
B)Anthony Braxton
C)Anthony Davis
D)John Zorn
14
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was classically trained at:
A)Peabody Conservatory of Music
B)New England Conservatory of Music
C)Harvard University
D)d, Julliard School of Music
15
What year was declared the "Year of the Blues"?
A)1976
B)2000
C)1989
D)2003





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