When Louis Armstrong scaled new heights of individualistic jazz virtuosity in a work like West End Blues, he was drawing partly on a tradition that is almost lost to modern listeners. Today the marching band music is thought of mostly as an ensemble music, but in Sousa's day it had a strong solo component exemplified by Herbert Lincoln Clarke. ...
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