Vic Hobson
Vic Hobson was awarded a Kluge Scholarship to the Library of Congress in 2007 and a Woest Fellowship to the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2009. A trustee for the National Jazz Archive, he is active in promoting jazz scholarship and research, and his own work has appeared in American Music, Jazz Perspectives, and the Jazz Archivist.
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Creating the Jazz Solo
Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
By Vic Hobson
University Press of Mississippi
A powerful statement on Armstrong’s pathway to creativity and his transformation of jazz
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
By Vic Hobson
University Press of Mississippi
A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz
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