Barry Harris approached the jazz standard Like Someone in Love as both a sophisticated concert feature and a living demonstration of his harmonic philosophy. Through his celebrated “major chromatic” concept, Harris transformed the song’s lyrical melody into a flowing tapestry of sixth-diminished harmony, chromatic movement, and bebop voice leading. His performances often balanced elegant melodic interpretation with deeply structured harmonic substitutions, allowing the tune to unfold with both emotional warmth and advanced jazz vocabulary. Harris also used “Like Someone in Love” as an educational vehicle, showing students how diminished chords, dominant movement, and chromatic passing tones could naturally emerge from the standard’s harmonic framework. In concert settings, the piece became a refined expression of Harris’s lifelong mission: connecting the beauty of the Great American Songbook with the intellectual depth of bebop improvisation.