Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony

Book Review: “Creating the Jazz Solo” — An Iconoclastic View

March 22, 2019

Rarely does a book leave me questioning the ways in which I understood, or thought I understood, the construction of some of the most formative solos in jazz history.

Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony

Book Review: “Creating the Jazz Solo” — An Iconoclastic View

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