Watch the Ken Burns Jazz Documentary Episode 8: Risk

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Answer the below study questions in complete sentences. Figure each one would require about 2 to 3 sentences to complete.

How is it that jazz involved “risk?”
Why was the jazz audience shrinking post World War II? Why were swing bands going out of business?
What were Charlie Parker’s “twin addictions?”
What was the role of the drummer in bebop that differed from what it was in big band swing? LEGENDARY dancer, Frankie Manning, is featured in this documentary. Why did he find bebop so hard to dance to?
What was the difference between the musicians’ response vs. the audiences’ response to bepop in Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillispie’s visits to LA in 1945?
Charlie Parker’s style was vastly different from the kind of music that he liked listening to. Which style was this and why did he like it so much?
Why was the pairing of Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden together in an ensemble so unusual at its time in 1947?
Was Louis Armstrong accepted by the post-WWII African American Community? Why is he not buried in NO?
What affect did drugs and alcohol have on jazz culture?
How did Miles Davis’ style of trumpet playing differ from Dizzy Gilliespie’s?
What was so different about “Birth of the Cool?”
The beat generation’s adoption of Bebop indicates that this sub-genre of jazz had evolved into which of our 4 musicological categories of music?
Bebop opened a rift in the jazz community. What were the various sides and their arguments?
What was new and fresh about Thelonious Monk’s style (both in music and personality)?
A lot of Monk’s tunes became “standards.” What are jazz standards and what role do they play in jazz?
Identify these two Ladies of Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holliday.
How did West Coast Jazz differ from what was happening in NYC during the 1950s? Which group was the best known on the West Coast?
What were the musical and social goals of Norman Granz’ “Jazz at the Philharmonic” series?