Eduqas A Level Music - Jazz - Practice Tests - Other Styles

The Eduqas A Level Music Specification says:
“Learners are required to study six genres of Jazz between 1920 and 1960:

• Ragtime
• Dixieland
• Early Jazz
• Big Band (including Swing)
• Bebop
• Cool Jazz”

…adding that learners should study (amongst other things) “important composers/performers in the development of each genre” and “how jazz changed over time (eg how styles cross-fertilised)”.

However, given that exam extracts can come from any Jazz between 1920 and 1960, it makes sense to look at other styles of Jazz performed between 1920 and 1960, whilst also noting that much Jazz comfortably falls in between genres.

These shorter listening exercises form a brief introduction to six additional styles of Jazz, with questions that at all times focus on the music heard rather than anything style-specific.

Six 6-mark questions, covering:

• Afro-Cuban Jazz
• Bossa Nova
• Hard Bop
• Gypsy Jazz/Jazz Manouche
• Free Jazz
• Third Stream

Musical extracts for assessment by:

• Dizzy Gillespie & Chan Pozo
• Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz
• Lee Morgan
• Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
• Lennie Tristano
• Jimmy Giuffre

Further examples for demonstration of the styles by:

• Mongo Santamaria
• Patato Valdez
• João Gilberto & Stan Getz
• Antônio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina
• Laufey
• Horace Silver
• Art Blakey
• Le Quintette du Hot Club de France
• Joe Harriott
• Sam Rivers
• Ornette Coleman
• Stan Kenton
• Gunther Schuller

Bundle contains:

• PDF of Questions and Answers
• PDF of Questions only
• PDF of Mark Scheme only
• PPT with questions, plus background to the styles with YouTube links to further examples of the different styles.

Written by a former Eduqas A Level Examiner, and BBC Radio Jazz Producer.

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