Jazz Artists- Big Influencers

3. Laid back jazz popular in the 1950's and 60's.
6. Parker Died from addiction at the young age of just 35.
9. Davis This trumpet players album popularized modal jazz.
10. Dizzy Gillespie is known for creating this new complex style of jazz popular in the 1940's and 1950's.
11. Count Basie's orchestra was called the _________ band ever.
14. John Coltrane played for this many hours almost everyday, most times forgetting to eat.
15. Crazy genre of jazz music that was complex and fast.
16. Ellington Who was more interested in art and baseball than piano?

1. Type of jazz music using chords that were based off intervals of 4ths.
2. Count Basie played piano in what kind of shows?
4. What style was a combination of rock rhythms and electronic instruments.
5. Davis This person turned their back on the audience when they played.
6. Basie Original in everything they did.
7. Ellington Greatest composer in jazz that wrote over 2,000 compositions.
8. Coltrane Arguably the best sax player of all time.
11. Subgenre of jazz popular for dancing in the 1930's and 1940's with Duke Ellington and Count Basie as major influencers.
12. Lester Young was nicknamed this by Billie Holliday.
13. Gillespie This person puffed out their cheeks when they played trumpet and played with the bell bent up.
15. Charlie Parker had this nickname because of his big appetite for chicken.