Jazz Review
Across
- 4. convinced Armstrong to leave New Orleans and come join him in Chicago
- 6. Last name of the bandleader that first accompanied the Castles, then led the "Hellfighters" regiment through Europe during WWI
- 12. _Fitzgerald was one of the purest, most in-tune voices in jazz history
- 13. law passed in 1920 that banned alcohol and inadvertently fueled the jazz craze
- 16. _ Morton falsely claimed to have invented jazz, but was the first to write it down
- 17. nickname Edward Ellington gave himself
- 18. city Count Basie came from
- 20. _ Armstrong - trumpet player and one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
Down
- 1. name of both the first big minstrel hit AND a set of laws that enforced racial segregation in the post-reconstruction south?
- 2. jazz is one of the first truly _ art forms
- 3. _ Holiday had one of the most unique voices in jazz, and was known for often singing like an instrumentalist
- 5. primary instrument of Tommy Dorsey
- 7. the American city where jazz was born
- 8. the name given to the most popular form of jazz in the 1930s
- 9. a person, often found in New Orleans, of both European and Black descent
- 10. the nightclub where Chick Webb "battled" Benny Goodman and Count Basie
- 11. Glenn _ made some of the most commercially successful jazz
- 14. _ bolden, one of the first jazz musicians, is credited with a style known as "the big 4"
- 15. the original spelling of jazz
- 19. Instrument played by the "King of Swing" Benny Goodman