MUNM 387 - Exam III Review
(2025/2026) WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
"The New Thing" - correct answer ✔✔the term first applied to the style that became known as
free jazz
Free Jazz - correct answer ✔✔a jazz style from the 1960s that is characterized by a willingness
to break conventional rules and norms
Atonality - correct answer ✔✔the abandonment of the primary key center or tonality that is
present in most Western music (jazz, classical, pop, etc.) This type of music can sound as if it has
no direction or resolution
The October Revolution in Jazz - correct answer ✔✔
Studio Rivbea - correct answer ✔✔a loft performance space
Kind of Blue - correct answer ✔✔an album by Miles Davis released in 1959; this album
abandoned the elaborate chord structures of bebop and replaced them with simple modal
frameworks, and also utilized a flexible form on "Flamenco Sketches"
Time Out - correct answer ✔✔an album by Dave Brubeck released in 1959; this album explored
odd and complex time signatures
Mingus Ah Um - correct answer ✔✔an album by Charles Mingus released in 1959; this album
struck a balance between precomposed orchestral jazz and spontaneous free improvisation
,Giant Steps - correct answer ✔✔an album by John Coltrane released in 1960; this album served
as a signpost of the end of the era of overly complex chords structures, was nonetheless the
pinnacle of this approach and a benchmark in Coltrane's career.
The Shape of Jazz to Come - correct answer ✔✔an album by Ornette Coleman released in 1959;
this album broke from nearly all the norms and traditions of jazz, and helped open up a brave
new world liberated from conventional chordal of harmonic rigidity
Unit Structures - correct answer ✔✔an album by Cecil Taylor released in 1966; this album was
an example of the metrically free rhythmic direction of his group
Live at the Village Vanguard - correct answer ✔✔an album by the John Coltrane Quartet
released in 1961; this album had 3 tracks on side A and side B consists of only one song,
"Chasin' the Trane," which highlighted Coltrane's high-energy eighty-chorus solo, played with
only bass and drums accompaniment, was filled with wails, cries, and screams.
A Love Supreme - correct answer ✔✔an album by John Coltrane released in 1964; recorded in
one night, this album is a four-part meditation inspired by his decision to refocus on his spiritual
awakening
Out to Lunch! - correct answer ✔✔An album by Eric Dolphy released in 1964; this album is
considered one of the finest albums in the Blue Note history and one of the high points in the
avant-garde jazz scene of the 1960s
Angels and Demons at Play - correct answer ✔✔An album by Sun Ra and the Myth Science
Arkestra released in 1963; this album is an example of the groups shift to free jazz
Five Spot Cafe - correct answer ✔✔a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square (1956-1962) in the
Bowery neighborhood of New York City, between the East and West Village; debut of the
Ornette Coleman Quartet 11/17/59
, Ornette Coleman - correct answer ✔✔an alto saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer;
In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album Free
Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
Cecil Taylor - correct answer ✔✔an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, he is
generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz
The John Coltrane Quartet - correct answer ✔✔John Coltrane - tenor, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Eric Dolphy - correct answer ✔✔an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist; His use of the
bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz
Sun Ra - correct answer ✔✔an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer
player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and
theatrical performances; For much of his career, he led "The Arkestra," an ensemble with an
ever-changing name and flexible line-up.
Myth Science Arkestra - correct answer ✔✔The name of the cult-band led by Sun Ra
Archie Shepp - correct answer ✔✔a tenor saxophonist; worked with John Coltrane on a number
of albums
Albert Ayler - correct answer ✔✔a tenor saxophonist; released his breakthrough album,
Spiritual Unity, in 1964
(2025/2026) WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
"The New Thing" - correct answer ✔✔the term first applied to the style that became known as
free jazz
Free Jazz - correct answer ✔✔a jazz style from the 1960s that is characterized by a willingness
to break conventional rules and norms
Atonality - correct answer ✔✔the abandonment of the primary key center or tonality that is
present in most Western music (jazz, classical, pop, etc.) This type of music can sound as if it has
no direction or resolution
The October Revolution in Jazz - correct answer ✔✔
Studio Rivbea - correct answer ✔✔a loft performance space
Kind of Blue - correct answer ✔✔an album by Miles Davis released in 1959; this album
abandoned the elaborate chord structures of bebop and replaced them with simple modal
frameworks, and also utilized a flexible form on "Flamenco Sketches"
Time Out - correct answer ✔✔an album by Dave Brubeck released in 1959; this album explored
odd and complex time signatures
Mingus Ah Um - correct answer ✔✔an album by Charles Mingus released in 1959; this album
struck a balance between precomposed orchestral jazz and spontaneous free improvisation
,Giant Steps - correct answer ✔✔an album by John Coltrane released in 1960; this album served
as a signpost of the end of the era of overly complex chords structures, was nonetheless the
pinnacle of this approach and a benchmark in Coltrane's career.
The Shape of Jazz to Come - correct answer ✔✔an album by Ornette Coleman released in 1959;
this album broke from nearly all the norms and traditions of jazz, and helped open up a brave
new world liberated from conventional chordal of harmonic rigidity
Unit Structures - correct answer ✔✔an album by Cecil Taylor released in 1966; this album was
an example of the metrically free rhythmic direction of his group
Live at the Village Vanguard - correct answer ✔✔an album by the John Coltrane Quartet
released in 1961; this album had 3 tracks on side A and side B consists of only one song,
"Chasin' the Trane," which highlighted Coltrane's high-energy eighty-chorus solo, played with
only bass and drums accompaniment, was filled with wails, cries, and screams.
A Love Supreme - correct answer ✔✔an album by John Coltrane released in 1964; recorded in
one night, this album is a four-part meditation inspired by his decision to refocus on his spiritual
awakening
Out to Lunch! - correct answer ✔✔An album by Eric Dolphy released in 1964; this album is
considered one of the finest albums in the Blue Note history and one of the high points in the
avant-garde jazz scene of the 1960s
Angels and Demons at Play - correct answer ✔✔An album by Sun Ra and the Myth Science
Arkestra released in 1963; this album is an example of the groups shift to free jazz
Five Spot Cafe - correct answer ✔✔a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square (1956-1962) in the
Bowery neighborhood of New York City, between the East and West Village; debut of the
Ornette Coleman Quartet 11/17/59
, Ornette Coleman - correct answer ✔✔an alto saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer;
In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album Free
Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
Cecil Taylor - correct answer ✔✔an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, he is
generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz
The John Coltrane Quartet - correct answer ✔✔John Coltrane - tenor, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Eric Dolphy - correct answer ✔✔an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist; His use of the
bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz
Sun Ra - correct answer ✔✔an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer
player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and
theatrical performances; For much of his career, he led "The Arkestra," an ensemble with an
ever-changing name and flexible line-up.
Myth Science Arkestra - correct answer ✔✔The name of the cult-band led by Sun Ra
Archie Shepp - correct answer ✔✔a tenor saxophonist; worked with John Coltrane on a number
of albums
Albert Ayler - correct answer ✔✔a tenor saxophonist; released his breakthrough album,
Spiritual Unity, in 1964
