Study Sheet to Ken Burn’s Disk 5 - Jazz Appreciation

1. How many swing records were sold in 1939? 2. Just weeks after his premier at the Palomar Ballroom which positions did Benny

Goodman’s records occupy on the charts?

3. Who made the statement, “Jazz is music, Swing is business”?

4. How much of Louis Armstrong’s income went to his longtime manager, Joe Glazer?

5. Which band leader had the best dressed, best rehearsed big band in the

industry?

6. Which trombonist/bandleader turned the trombone into a “singing” instrument?

7. According to Artie Shaw, what was Glenn Millers groups’ main flaw?

8. Who was Benny Goodman’s greatest rival?

9. Before the union stepped in, how many nights a week and miles a day would a big band travel?

10. What was the typical bandleader’s protocol for arranging for food and lodging

for their musicians?

11. What was one of Benny Goodman’s most famous records that involved a desegregated trio?

12. Who was the controversial pianist in Benny Goodman’s trio?

13. What instrument was added in order to turn Benny’s trio into a quartet and who

was the musician?

14. Who was Billie Holiday’s father and what instrument did he play?

15. Who discovered Billy Holiday?

16. How big was Billie Holiday’s vocal range?