{"id":43,"date":"2013-02-26T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworthBlog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:28:27","slug":"jazz-history-as-students-remember-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/jazz-history-as-students-remember-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz History As Students Remember It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/porkbrains-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/porkbrains-2.jpg\" alt=\"porkbrains-2\" width=\"248\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Some\u00a0<\/strong>mem<\/strong><strong>o<\/strong><strong>rable test answers from college Jazz History exams <\/strong><strong>and Concert Reports I&#8217;ve received:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jazz was affected by the economy in WWII &#8211; people didn\u2019t go out very often because there was a shortage of rubbers. (Actually, the demise of the Big Band era was hastened by a wartime shortage of rubber &#8230; for tires &#8230; for the buses.)<\/p>\n<p>Q.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the difference between a big band and a combo?<br \/>\nA. A big band performs with a male singer and a combo uses a female singer.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument in Free Jazz most likely to be omitted is the drums, because with everybody doing their own thing there\u2019s no use trying to keep the beat.<\/p>\n<p>A stride pianist is a person who sits astride on the piano bench. Also, when the music is strident, it&#8217;s probably a stride pianist.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a rural Blues singer and a Classic Blues singer is the Rural Blues singer is shorter. (ED: The songs are shorter &#8211; not the singers.)<br \/>\nNot only did Bessie Smith record for Columbia, she also made videos for them. (Ah, MTV circa 1932.)<br \/>\nLouise Armstrong was the first great Jazz musician. No, it was Lois Armstrong. (Armstrong&#8217;s wife had no idea!)<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018hot Jazz\u2019 band is on fire. A \u2018Mickey Mouse\u2019 band plays at Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>From Concert Reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pianist used crescendos and archipelagos in his solo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trumpeter put a muzzle on his horn to keep it quiet while the bassist played with his hands around its neck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More brilliant concert reportage:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bass player didn\u2019t do any walking because there wasn\u2019t enough room on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two soloists competed like an old fashioned carving contest.&#8221; (He means \u2018cutting contest\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, my favorite:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The piano and the bass started the tune silently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"43\"> (174)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Some\u00a0memorable test answers from college Jazz History exams and Concert Reports I&#8217;ve received: Jazz was affected by the economy in WWII &#8211; people didn\u2019t go out very often because there was a shortage of rubbers. (Actually, the demise of the Big Band era was hastened by a wartime shortage of rubber &#8230; for tires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-jazz-education","tag-anne-farnsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzmediapress.com\/AnneFarnsworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}