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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cool jazz | a restrained, fluid modern-jazz style of the 1950s, marked by intricate harmonic structures, de-emphasized dynamics, and carefully controlled phrasing and ensemble playing, often with a slight lagging behind the beat. |
| ragtime | rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation. |
| jazz | music originating in New Orleans |
| free jazz | spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960s by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures, tonalities, and rhythms |
| bebop | jazz |
| blues | a song, originating with African Americans, that is marked by the |
| New Orleans style | a style of jazz developed in New Orleans early in the 20th century, influenced by blues, ragtime, marching band music, and minstrelsy and marked by polyphonic group improvisation. |
| rhythm and blues | a folk-based but urbanized form of Black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll. |
| Bessie Smith | African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. |
| Miles Davis | American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. |
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