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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
Who led a famous Cool Style pianoless quartet?
A)Stan Getz
B)Gerry Mulligan
C)Gil Evans
D)Miles Davis
3
The man who frequently and effectively performed with Brazilian composer/guitarist Joao Gilberto was
A)Stan Getz
B)Dizzy Gillespie
C)Cal Tjader
D)Horace Silver
4
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"
5
The musical experiments of the Cool Era led to a mixing of jazz and classical compositions that was eventually know as
A)fusion
B)abstraction
C)third stream
D)dual modality
6
Which of the following was prominent in the fusion of Latin jazz with soul and rhythm and blues?
A)Mongo Santamaria
B)Dizzy Gillespie
C)Chick Corea
D)Mario Banza
7
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
8
Which two pianists—one east coast and one west coast—brought more esoteric compositional concerns to the new cool style of jazz?
A)Thelonious Monk and Stan Kenton
B)Lennie Tristano and Dave Brubeck
C)Teddy Wilson and Walter Bishop
D)Billy Taylor and Ralph Burns
9
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 Rumsey's Lighthouse
C)Bob Reisner's Open Door
D)The Palomas Ballroom
10
"Song for My Father" was ______________ attempt to incorporate the True feeling of the bossa nova into his funky hard bop?
A)Dizzy Gillespie's
B)Art Blakey's
C)Horace Silver's
D)Mongo Santamaria's





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