Analysis Riverside Years

Ibid., 563-570. At the time of the Benny Goodman sextet Charlie Christian could apparently “conceive such riffs by the hundreds.” The riff was an exciting and still a relatively fresh idea in jazz. However, Schuller contends that the riff-tune idea was eventually “increasingly abused, or … ................
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