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| | Charlie Christian Guitar Lesson |
 | | Charlie’s favorite chromatic encircling motive is played consistently, six times in the solo in measures 2, 3, 10, 14, 19, and 23. | | | Christian’s up-tempo single-note lines point unerringly to the future of jazz guitar and the bebop movement. | | | Charlie solos over one full chorus of the tune’s 32-bar aaba structure in D flat. |
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http://www.riffinteractive.com/expguitar/CharlieChristian_Lesson.htm
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| | Charlie Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Far Side cartoon entitled "Charlie Parker's private hell" shows him locked in a recording booth while the devil pipes in nothing but new age music. | | | It was Monk who summed up their approach in the famous quote: "We wanted a music that they couldn't play" — "they" being either the (mostly white) bandleaders who had taken over and profited from swing music or unwelcome fellow musicians wishing to jam with Parker, Gillespie and others. | | | Charlie Parker has been an inspiration to many people including John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Jaco Pastorius, and Yo-Yo Ma. |
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| | SoundStage! Charlie Christian - The Genius of the Electric Guitar |
| | Part of Christian’s genius was in establishing the sound and feel of an electric guitar in a jazz band. | | | When Charlie Christian recorded his first solo for Goodman, on "Flying Home," the track that opens this set, he showed that an electric guitar plugged into a vacuum-tube amplifier could hold its own in a band. | | | Goodman was the most popular and powerful musician of the swing era and he used his clout to hire and record with musicians he liked, regardless of race. |
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http://www.soundstage.com/music/reviews/rev491.htm
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| | Charlie Christian Quotes |
| | Christian made music important to me. I rearranged the schedule at my shop so I could work nights and listen to band remotes (broadcasts)....Christian was the one who got me going. | | | I listened to (Charlie Christian's records) real good, and I knew that everything done on his guitar could be done on mine. | | | I bought all the Goodman/Christian recordings and memorised Charlie's choruses, playing them on a second hand $14 guitar and $20 amplifier. |
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http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/charliecq.html
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| | Charlie Christian: Genius of the Electric Guitar - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Christian was impressed by Young's use of unusual chords and his guitar solos frequently sounded like another horn. | | | But Christian took over 40 choruses and the song went on for about 43 minutes to the sheer delight of the audience (these were the days before Warhol doomed us to a mere 15 minutes of fame). | | | Just as the other Charlie, Parker that is, made every saxophonist who proceeded him feel his might, Christian's ghost haunted every guitar that ever played jazz (and, arguably, quite a bit of rock) after he was gone. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/c/christiancharlie-genius.shtml
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| | WHAT'S HOT WITH JAZZ GUITAR (Guitar News Weekly #184, March 11, 2002 - (c) GuitarSite.com) |
| | Charlie had two brothers: Clarence who played the violin and the mandolin, and Edward (the eldest) who played the string bass. | | | Christian provided most of the music in a silent movie theatre in Dalas. | | | He was the first to take advantage of the melodic potential of the electric guitar and, as a soloist, he introduced rhythmic and harmonic complexities that bridged traditional swing and modern jazz. |
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http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/020311/5.shtml
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| | Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 81 - Charlie Christian’s Last Performance |
| | While Christian was at the sanitarium, Goodman and the other members of the band came to Cleveland, in January of 1942, to play a joint concert with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Music Hall at East 6th and St. Clair. | | | Most jazz fans know Charlie Christian as the all-time master of the jazz guitar, a pioneer on the electric guitar who influenced generations of musicians. | | | While battling tuberculosis, Christian continued to amaze the music world with his guitar. |
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http://www.cleveland.oh.us/wmv_news/jazz81.htm
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| | Charlie Christian -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | U.S. jazz musician Charlie Christian was one of the first guitarists to produce improvised pieces using electrically amplified equipment. | | | Christian was born in 1916 in Dallas, Tex., and reared in Oklahoma City, Okla., where he studied music with… | | | American jazz musician who began playing guitar in 1943, inspired by jazz great Charlie Christian, and later performed during the early-mid-1950s as a professional with the innovative Red Norvo Trio and with Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five, establishing a national reputation as a fluent improviser of melodic bop lines. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9319619
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| | Zap Guitar » Lessons » In the Style of Charlie Christian |
| | INTRODUCTION: Charlie Christian's (1919-1942) influence on jazz and electric guitar is incomparable. | | | This is merely a description of the guitar style described, and should not be construed as an endoresement of this lesson or Zap Guitar by Charlie Christian. | | | In 1939 Charlie joined Benny Goodman's band where he wrote and recorded most of his famous solos on songs such as Solo Flight, Air Mail Special and Seven Come Eleven. |
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http://www.zapguitar.com/tour/JZC001-4.cfm
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| | Classic Jazz Guitar - Guitarists |
| | Charlie also made most of his recordings with the Benny Goodman units. | | | These recordings of Charlie Christian, along with recordings of Dizzy Gilespie and others ended up on the Vox and Esoteric labels. | | | Shortly after that the Benny Goodman Sextet recorded Flying Home with Charlie Christian on guitar. |
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http://www.classicjazzguitar.com/artists/artists_page.jsp?artist=9
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| | Jazzmatazz Review - Charlie Christian - The Genius of the Electric Guitar |
| | With solid annotations, this is a worthy introduction to a man who may indeed have deserved the label "genius" for his instrument—because he had the inventiveness to birth it as a jazz solo instrument, and to hear/see beyond the limitations of swing. | | | Actually a hybrid of the Basie and Goodman small bands, Christian was joined by the solid if uninventive Freddie Green on acoustic guitar, Young, Buck Clayton, Walter Jones on bass, Jo Jones at the drums, Basie and Goodman. | | | Charlie Christian : The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia/Legacy) |
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| | Charlie Peacock - Music |
| | Later, Charlie signed with Bill Graham Management, and with the help of Exit, a Sacramento production imprint, Charlie recorded solo pop albums for A&M and Island Records, toured the US and Canada with The Fixx, General Public, Let's Active, and Missing Persons, and signed his first songwriting agreement with CBS Songs. | | | Named by Billboard's Encyclopedia of Record Producers as one of the 500 most important record producers in music history, Charlie is also the only three-time recipient of the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for Producer of the Year. | | | A highlight of recording Full Circle was the participation of Charlie's son Sam on the project. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/artists/charliepeacock.html
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| | Charlie Christian - great jazz guitarists |
| | For a long time, however, it has been relatively difficult to collect Christian’s music because his work was released on several labels and haphazardly repackaged. | | | For the next two years, he would be well-featured with Benny Goodman's Sextet; there were two solos (including the showcase "Solo Flight") with the full orchestra; and the guitarist had the opportunity to jam at Minton's Playhouse with such up-and-coming players as Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, and Dizzy Gillespie. | | | Definitive, however, is quite open about not offering alternates (both liners and track listings make this clear) and while this policy has historical limitations, musically it has much to recommend it. |
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http://www.playjazzguitar.com/charlie_christian.html
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| | Charlie Christian |
| | Though his life was short, his hornlike, single-note style, which capitalized on innovations in amplification technology, revolutionized and redefined the role of the electric guitar in popular music. | | | His hollow-body electric guitar sound was clean, warm and rich sounding that changed the course of jazz and blues guitar forever. | | | The reverberations from Christian's pioneering efforts have echoed down the decades, through Western swing, rockabilly and rock and roll to the present day. |
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http://www.zapguitar.com/guitar_charlie_christian.cfm
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| | Books at Random House of Canada At the Crossroads by Charlie Peacock with Molly Nicholas |
| | Charlie Peacock is a popular singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and author of New Way to Be Human. | | | Charlie knows the terrain of the faith-based music world and deftly explores the theological underpinnings that created a world where Christians who played popular music ended up singing almost exclusively for fellow believers. | | | Charlie Peacock invites us to grapple courageously with the roots of our own theology, the different shapes and voices of our ministry, and, most importantly, the way our kingdom perspective influences the music we make and the song that resonates deep within each of us.” |
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http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780877881285
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| | Charlie Christian The Complete Charlie Christian |
| | Charlie Christian is often described as the first great electric guitar soloist, but he was more. | | | They sound best if listened to a few at a time as they were originally intended. | | | Luckily Christian's best recorded solo, the alternate of “I Found a New Baby” is included. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0801_140.htm
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| | The Benny Goodman Sextet : Featuring Charlie Christian <> |
| | Christian's harmonically advanced single-note solos were a precursor to bebop, but even more importantly, he established the guitar as an equal partner to the horn soloists. | | | Christian is simply inventing the vocabulary of modern jazz guitar, and all soloists raise the intensity trading riffs until the rideout. | | | Charlie Christian The Genius of the Electric Guitar |
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http://www.outersound.com/bigshot/inkblot/rev-archive/goodman.htm
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| | Charlie Christian The Genius of the Electric Guitar |
| | While Christian was not the first musician to play the electric guitar, use the electric guitar in a jazz setting, nor the first to treat the electric guitar as a lead instrument, he was the first to put all of these ideas together and set the tone for generations ahead of him. | | | While this four disc collection is a study of Christian’s recording career, it also puts Benny Goodman, from whose recordings this collection is culminated, into a more positive light. | | | One usually thinks of the pop big band sound when they think of Goodman, not the creative and masterful bandleader he was with the Sextet and Septet that featured Christian and Lionel Hampton. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?review_id=8701
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| | Swinging on a Riff: The Legacy of the Benny Goodman Sextet |
| | Because of Christian's use of the amplifier, single-note guitar soloing could be heard as never before, and the guitar in its electrified form became an equal partner to horn soloists in jazz. | | | This riff-based approach, and Christian's fresh and original swinging guitar solos, set the Benny Goodman Sextet apart from other small jazz bands of the era. | | | Many of the original tunes recorded by the Sextet were inspired by "riffs," repeated melodic fragments invented by Christian. |
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http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/goodman_sextet.htm
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| | Early Jazz |
| | This album featured Charlie's greatest recordings These recordings have been listened to, analysed and copied by almost every succeeding Jazz guitarist since. | | | Charlie Christian raised the electric guitar from novelty to prominence in Jazz | | | The Genius Of The Electric Guitar - Charlie Christian |
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http://www.notz.com/jg_early.htm
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| | Texas Monthly: Texas Music Source |
| | Irritated to see Christian among the band, Goodman struck up "Rose Room," not expecting the guitarist to know the tune. | | | The story goes that he was too poor to buy a guitar of his own, so he built a makeshift instrument out of discarded cigar boxes. | | | Influenced: Established the electric guitar as a major jazz solo instrument, and influenced the development of bebop |
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http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/source/86379445627770/86379445927770.html
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| | The Bebop Shop Charlie Christian |
| | Charlie Christian: The Genius Of The Electric Guitar (CD: Columbia, 4 CDs) | | | Charlie Christian: The Genius Of The Electric Guitar (CD: Columbia) | | | Charlie Christian: The Original Guitar Genius (CD: Proper, 4 CDs) |
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http://www.thebebopshop.com/acatalog/The_Bebop_Shop_Charlie_Christian_134.html
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features |
| | You'll have fun listening to a crucial piece of American musical history. | | | Every generation and mainstream style has its guitar heroes -- from Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and Eddie Van Halen to B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Stevie Ray Vaughan; Roy Clark, Chet Atkins and Duane Eddy; Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel and George Benson; and Robert Fripp, John Scofield and Tom Morello. | | | When listening to him now, nothing sounds dated -- his cohorts, maybe, or some of the material, but not that guitar, so commanding, stinging, flowing, swinging. |
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http://starbulletin.com/2002/11/08/features/story13.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Genius of the Electric Guitar: Music |
| | The CD could be entitled "Anything BUT Charlie Christian".....of course the guitar was not an upfront instrument at those days, so the soloing of Christian is at a minimum...If you want to get the feeling of the era though it's a good album - includes many other greats on instruments such as clarinet, vibraphone etc. | | | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. | | | Customers who bought music by Charlie Christian also bought music by these artists: |
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| | SOLO FLIGHT (Home Page) |
| | Many transcriptions of Charlie Christian solos, intros, riffs, accompaniments, etc., in standard notation with tablature. | | | Includes a “solography” feature detailing Charlie Christian’s participation on each title, including unissued recordings. | | | Web links to other sites associated with Charlie Christian, the best jazz guitar sites, and link-sites to jazz places on the Internet. |
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| | Discography |
| | The ALBUM INDEX lists all albums containing recordings by Charlie Christian. | | | It is sequenced by Tune Title with the date and matrix of each recording and the albums in which each can be found. | | | It is in Label and Catalog Number sequence with a complete description of each album including all titles, matrices, and recording dates. |
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| | Amazon.com: Solo Flight (1939-1941): Music: Charlie Christian |
| | For me these tracks, featuring Charlie Christian, Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones, Benny Goodman and Count Basie all playing together are the highlight, and the best reason to purchase this album. | | | Ever since my first audio visit via CL-652, I've been quite the Charlie Christian [addict?], Ol' Charlie has influenced ALL guitarists, professional, and 'just for fun.' From Chuck Berry through Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Christian has left us his signature. | | | Even without the fabled Lester Young session, this would be a "must have" for the BG/CC tracks, but the Lester/Basie/Goodman/Christian session is sublime. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001LYV?v=glance
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| | NPR: All Songs Considered: Episode 28 |
| | Charlie Christian forever changed the way we hear the electric guitar. | | | Blip Hop music is made by mixing together an audio collage of almost entirely unnatural sounds. | | | If you'd like us to notify you when new shows are posted on All Songs Considered, |
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| | Charlie Christian |
| | His pioneering efforts with the electric guitar resulted in a liberating of the instrument, in jazz specifically and in music generally. | | | His music is embedded in the very core of all guitarlore influencing blues, rock, country and popular electric guitarists for decades to follow. | | | Charlie Christian (1916—1942) was the founding father and primary architect of the modern jazz guitar style. |
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http://www.riffinteractive.com/expguitar/CharlieChristian1.htm
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| | Were Charlie Christian And Jimi Hendrix The Same Person |
| | They were both fire signs, born in astrological sequence. | | | Moreover, their respective names at birth, Johnny Allen Hendrix and Charles Christian both had a five name number: J=1+O=6+H=8+N=5+N=5+Y=7 | | | Christian was born in an eight year (1916=1+9+1+6=17=1+7=8) and died in a seven year (1942=1+9+4+2=16=1+6=7) while Hendrix was born in a seven year (1942) and died in an eight year: |
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| | Jeff Maguire's History of the Electric Guitar |
| | By the time he was twelve he had switched to the guitar, most probably as a result of the influence of Eddie Durham a well known trombone player who also played the guitar and is generaly credidted with playing the first recorded electric guitar solo. | | | Charlie Christian was born with music in his blood. | | | Both of his parents were professional musicians, his mother played the piano and his father played both the trumpet and the guitar. |
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| | Charlie Christian News |
| | Barney started on the guitar as a teenager after meeting and hearing Charlie Christian. | | | Royal blend of vintage jazz; Trio to play in concert at Crooked Tree | | | Barney Kessel, a jazz guitarist who performed with Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and other music greats, died of brain cancer Thursday, his wife said. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Charlie Christian |
| | When he grew up, he became a much-admired local musician in Oklahoma, playing an amplified acoustic guitar as early as 1937. | | | His father was a blind guitarist and singer, his brothers Edward and Clarence were musicians, and Christian himself built and played cigar-box "guitars" during his elementary school days. | | | Goodman, deeply impressed by Christian's playing, engaged him and soon featured him on weekly radio broadcasts and in recordings; before the year was over he was a nationally prominent jazz soloist. |
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http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_christian_charlie.htm
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| | Solo Flight by Charlie Christian |
| | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc. | | | Tag all your own MP3 files with album covers easily with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! | | | Breakfast Feud - Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra |
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| | Charlie Christian The Immortal Charlie Christian - Music download here | | | These historic performances, though not of the highest sound quality, were deemed worthy of being digitally mastered. |
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| | Charlie Christian |
| | An inventive improviser, Christian had a uniquely clean, fluid sound, produced in hornlike solos often played on a single string. | | | By 1937, Christian had begun to play an electrically amplified guitar, and he soon transformed it into a staple of the jazz ensemble, elevating it from a largely rhythm-section role into a full-fledged solo instrument. | | | In 1941 Christian contracted tuberculosis and the following year he died, leaving some 100 recordings and ending a brief but brilliant career at age 25. |
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| | Playjazz - Whats New ? |
| | Swing to Bop: The Music of Charlie Christian - Bk & CD Stan Ayeroff 11/15/05 | | | THE GUITAR CHORD SHAPES OF CHARLIE CHRISTIAN - Book & CD Package 10/01/05 | | | CHARLIE PARKER COLLECTION (SAXOPHONE) - Artist Transcriptions 10/01/05 |
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| | Charlie Christian Solo Transcriptions |
| | Transcriptions and audio files of selected solos by Charlie Christian | | | To print directly from a browser, MSIE and Netscape users should left click in the window containing the transcription before clicking the browser's Print button. |
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| | The Herb Ellis Quintet - Thank You, Charlie Christian - Verve Records |
| | Visit The Verve Vault at the "Real Music Store" to shop for out of print albums that are available exclusively for digital download at Real! | | | Pianist Frank Strazzari along with Chuck [Berghofer] and Kenny [Hume], is making one of his first recorded efforts in the jazz field. | | | I just sat down and started playing, everybody found a part and we made it in one take. |
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http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=prd&src=srs&pid=11041
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| | Charlie Christian--Jazz Musician |
| | Charlie Christian "would amuse and amaze us at school with his first guitar -- one that he made from a cigar box -- he would be playing his own riffs. | | | One common statement that has been made was that Charlie was born in 1919 in Dallas but even his death certificate mistakenly records 1917 as his year of birth. | | | Even such facts as the place and date of his birth have been frequently misreported over the years. |
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| | Charlie Christian Page |
| | ".....I would venture to say that there is not a guitarist alive today, whether he knows it or not, who is playing jazz, amplified or unamplified, who doesn't owe something to and have some of Charlie Christian in his playing..... |
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