Identify a true statement about Kurt Elling.Multiple choice question.One of his outstanding compositions is a jazz setting of poems by Walt Whitman.His trumpet playing reflects a strong influence of Miles Davis.He improvised scales from India and rhythms from Africa in his compositions.He infuses jazz standards and his compositions with a Black and feminist sensibility.

Multiple Choice QuestionIdentify a true statement about Kurt Elling.Multiple choice question.He infuses jazz standards and his compositions with a Black and feminist sensibility.His trumpet playing reflects a strong influence of Miles Davis.One of his outstanding compositions is a jazz setting of poems by Walt Whitman.He improvised scales from India and rhythms from Africa in his compositions.

Select all that applyWhich of the following statements are true of jazz vocalist Kurt Elling?Multiple select question.He sets words to famous jazz solos.He blends elements of rap-style vocal with jazz.He was also a trumpet player, and his playing reflects a strong influence of Miles Davis.He draws his material from rock, pop, and show tunes.

Identify an accurate statement about the music composed by George Gershwin.Multiple choice question.His musical language reflected the sounds and the flavor of the blues.His musical language reflected the sounds and the flavor of jazz.His musical compositions were always extremely chromatic.His musical compositions were always composed in the key of G-flat.

Identify an accurate statement about William Billings.Multiple choice question.He wrote songs to suit his own American tastes and made no attempt to imitate European sounds.He never attended singing school himself.He was unaware of the conventional relationships between consonant and dissonant sounds.He realized much profit on his tune books because of the effective copyright law in his day.

Identify an accurate statement about Louis Armstrong.Multiple choice question.He sang (in a manner of speaking), scatting in an amazingly creative, often humorous, always expressive way.He was a classically trained violinist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to create the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired.He was known for a time as the "king of jazz," but his music bore only a marginal relationship to real jazz.He combined ragtime and boogie-woogie techniques to produce his own inimitable piano style.