Question 5
- Name any three notable exponents of each of the following musical genres
(i) Jazz
(ii) Reggae
- Identify the nationality and the main instrument of the following popular musicians:
S/N |
Musician |
Nationality |
Main instruments |
I |
Diana Ross |
|
|
Ii |
Ray Charles |
|
|
Iii |
B. B. King |
|
|
- State any three characterics of blues.
Observation
The question was popular among the candidates, and it was well attempted by most. However, the candidates’ performances were excellent. It was very surprising that some candidates found it difficult to state the characteristics of blues. These sets of candidates were expected to state the following points:
(a) (i) Exponents of Jazz
Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bunny Berigan, Kid Ory, Boby Dodds, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Hugh Masakela, Kenny Miles, Omette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Theolonians Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Mary Lou Williams, Scott Joplin, Kenny G, Dave Kov.
(ii) Exponents of Reggae
Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff, Larry Marshall, Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker, Ken Boothe, Millie Small Leslie Kong, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs, King Tubby, Chris Blackwell, Alpha Blondy, Majek Fashek, Evlyn Edna Ogoli-Ogosi, Lucky Dube.
(b)
S/N |
Musician |
Nationality |
Main instrument |
(i) |
Diana Ross |
American |
Voice |
(ii) |
Ray Charles |
American |
Piano, Voice |
(iii) |
B. B. King |
American |
Voice, Guitar |
(c) Characteristics of blues
- It grew out of Negros lifestyle
- It uses poetic stanzas
- It is usually a twelve-bar musical structure
- It uses lowered (flattened) thirds and sevenths called blue notes.
- It is characterized with the feeling of melancholy.
- Its theme is basically on love