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Who was James Caesar Petrillo?

What term is often applied to music combining elements of jazz and classical music? Who coined this term?

List three groups that are/were affiliated with the AACM.

During the Swing Era, combo jazz… was recorded and practiced less frequently than at other times in jazz history. was mostly visible in small clubs on 52nd Street in New York and as a “band within a band” during performances of big bands. usually appeared as accompaniment to vocalists.

What Black American composer led a military unit during World War I who infused military band music with Ragtime and Early Jazz elements?

What was the “Cabaret Tax”? How did it effect jazz in the 1940’s?

What was the instrumentation of a typical New Orleans marching jazz band?

Name three musical influences that may have led Miles Davis to experiment with the approach to jazz harmony presented on Milestones and Kind of Blue.

What is the instrumentation of a typical jazz organ trio?

How was this marching band instrumentation modified when the musicians began to play in dance halls and cabarets?