Tin Pan Alley refers to:
a. the California Gold Rush's influence on bringing American popular music to the West
Coast for the first time
b. sidewalk musicians who held out tin cans for tips
c. the skid row district of the west side of Manhattan
d. an area in New York that housed the music publishing business
D
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The two musicians most closely identified with the origins of bebop were:
A) Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington B) Don Redman and Fletcher Henderson C) Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie D) Miles Davis and Gunther Schuller
Why did Duke Ellington say that he was "born in 1956 at the Newport Festival"?
a. he premiered his "New Ellington" band there, featuring a smaller, more bebop-oriented group b. the crowd went wild during their performance there, and his band was back in vogue c. he premiered his first sacred oratorio there, illustrating his growing interest in gospel-oriented music d. after a failed performance there, he realized how he could restructure his big band for the post–swing era