MUNM 387: Chapter 2 QUESTIONS
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Newport Jazz Festival - correct answer ✔✔The first outdoor jazz festival, started in 1954 by
George Wein in Newport, Rhode Island.
Jazz at the Philharmonic - correct answer ✔✔Norman's Granz concert and tour series that
began in 1944 and continued into the 1960's.
Cool Jazz - correct answer ✔✔A jazz style from the 1950's that is characterized by restraint and
European influences. Sometimes known as West Coast Jazz.
The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization - correct answer ✔✔Written by George
Russell; the first theoretical contribution to come from jazz and was responsible for introducing
modal improvisation, which resulted in the seminal recording of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
Third Stream - correct answer ✔✔A term coined by Gunther Schuller in 1957 to describe the
combining of jazz and classical music into a new style.
West Coast Jazz - correct answer ✔✔A jazz style from the 1950's that is characterized by
restraint and European influences. Sometimes known as cool jazz.
Straight Life - correct answer ✔✔Art Pepper's autobiography; This book's title is not a reference
to being sober, but feeling straight or normal only after getting high.
Overdub - correct answer ✔✔A feature of multi-track tape recorders that allows musicians to
record additional parts independently of each other while listening to already tracks with
headphones.
WELL ANSWERED TO PASS 2025/2026
Newport Jazz Festival - correct answer ✔✔The first outdoor jazz festival, started in 1954 by
George Wein in Newport, Rhode Island.
Jazz at the Philharmonic - correct answer ✔✔Norman's Granz concert and tour series that
began in 1944 and continued into the 1960's.
Cool Jazz - correct answer ✔✔A jazz style from the 1950's that is characterized by restraint and
European influences. Sometimes known as West Coast Jazz.
The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization - correct answer ✔✔Written by George
Russell; the first theoretical contribution to come from jazz and was responsible for introducing
modal improvisation, which resulted in the seminal recording of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
Third Stream - correct answer ✔✔A term coined by Gunther Schuller in 1957 to describe the
combining of jazz and classical music into a new style.
West Coast Jazz - correct answer ✔✔A jazz style from the 1950's that is characterized by
restraint and European influences. Sometimes known as cool jazz.
Straight Life - correct answer ✔✔Art Pepper's autobiography; This book's title is not a reference
to being sober, but feeling straight or normal only after getting high.
Overdub - correct answer ✔✔A feature of multi-track tape recorders that allows musicians to
record additional parts independently of each other while listening to already tracks with
headphones.
