期刊名称：Critical Voices: The University of Guelph Book Review Project
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：8-12
语种：English
出版社：University of Guelph
摘要：Vic Hobson’s Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop, Harmony, and the Blues (2014) is a well written text that helps further research on the history of jazz while at the same time providing an interesting read concerning the development of jazz counterpoint. Hobson’s research confirms that Bunk Johnson did in fact play with jazz legend Buddy Bolden, helping to prove the validity of Johnson’s description of the early years of New Orleans jazz music. Interviews with Bunk Johnson, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong describe how singing in barbershop quartets influenced their ability to improvise and listen more efficiently as they acquired a better musical ear. This enrichment of improvisational techniques influenced blues harmonies and more complicated jazz counterpoint. In a relatively short book of only 129 pages, Hobson combines new research with additional scholarship to provide a compelling argument that barbershop harmony had a major influence on the development of jazz counterpoint and structure.
