Jazz and Blues

Au programme

• Which city is most closely associated with the emergence of jazz in the early twentieth century?
• Which blues musician recorded the influential 1969 album "Couldn’t Stand the Weather"?
• What musical feature is especially characteristic of bebop compared with swing?
• Which artist is strongly associated with the development of cool jazz in the 1950s?
• The 1920s recordings of Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five helped establish the importance of the jazz [____].
• B.B. King was famous for playing a guitar he nicknamed [____].
• The blues scale commonly adds a flattened fifth, known as the [____] note, to the minor pentatonic scale.
• The 1959 Miles Davis album [____] became one of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all time.