prize17-1, Exercise 1: Listening for the five ingredients

Model answer (the details depend on the recording you choose; this one is an imagined example for a mid-tempo blues):

- Improvisation: the saxophone solo after the opening tune invents new phrases over the same chords.
- Swing feel: the ride cymbal plays a long-short pattern, and the walking bass sits on every beat.
- Blue notes: the trumpet bends the third of the chord slightly flat in the first solo phrase.
- Syncopation: the piano plays chords on off-beats, between the bass notes.
- Call and response: the trumpet plays a phrase and the saxophone answers it in the same shape.

If an ingredient is absent, say so. Some later styles use straight eighths, and that is a finding, not a mistake.

Care: do not claim to hear a blue note unless you can name the moment. Replay that moment twice before writing it down.