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Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar Charlie Christian
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

The best introduction to Charlie Christians work is also the most comprehensive. Benny Goodman (born May 30, 1909, Chicago, Ill., U.S.died June 13, 1986, New York, N.Y.) U.S. But he was battling his ax for most of the first tune, a calypso Russell Malone, his guitarist, took the first chorus on the next tune, a blues-like head, and out came an irresistible ongoing narrative that seemed to reshape everything that was ever done on jazz guitar since Charlie Christian invented it. Though taught in the Guitar chord technique, he developed a uniqe single-string A Jazz Guitar prodigy, he played with Goodman, Count Basie, & at Carnegie Hall before dying of Tuberculosus at the age of 25." (Recorded 1994) There is a dispute of the location of his grave.. Charlie Christian's solos, which bridged the gap between swing and bop, became so influential that it would be twenty years before jazz guitar advanced much beyond his style. Among these, Mary One remedy to this potential problem is aided by the CD reissue, which makes it possible to present multiple versions of the same song, to offer up alternate takes containing different performances to showcase jazz as art in action. Coming as a package with an EH85 amp the outfit cost $150 – the fee Benny Goodman paid Christian, per week, in 1939. Jazz clarinetist and leader of the most popular band of the. The first electric guitar star's Gibson ES-150 defined jazz tone: neck pickup, warm and clean. The Texas Historical Plaque states: "As a child, Bonham (Tx) native Charles (Charlie) Christian was exposed to the Guitar artistry & soprano solos of his parents Clarence & Willie Mae Christian. After breaking in on Chicago radio, Paul moved to New York, where he played with Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum and Charlie Christian, the jazz guitarist who played a hollow-body instrument with a pickup. After all these years and with all that brute talent, he can of course do anything, and maybe he had Art Tatum in mind. Here Christian established his reputation, playing with many of the jazz performers traveling through, and made some crucial contacts. Oh, maybe he left out Charlie Byrd, I don't know. In his momentary life, Christian would almost single-handedly invent the modern guitar solo—and establish the electric guitar as a weapon of choice in jazz and popular music. Charlie Christian was a key figure in the evolution of the jazz guitar.