Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar

Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar by Charlie Christian

Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar Charlie Christian ebook
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Page: 32
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0793519756,

The last years of the 1930s were milestones in the development of the jazz guitar. Was it Charlie Christian who first inspired you to seriously study the guitar? In 1939 an unknown young man named Charlie Christian joined the Benny Goodman Sextet on the new electric version of the six-string instrument playing exquisite, harmonically complex solo lines as if on a saxophone or clarinet. Joe Negri - Photo credit: Michael G. After all these years and with all that brute talent, he can of course do anything, and maybe he had Art Tatum in mind. Arts and Entertainment reviews and news. >> next page · all on one page. A year earlier, a slightly older man by the name of. Joe Negri: It was, indeed, Charlie Christian that first inspired me. Oh, maybe he left out Charlie Byrd, I don't know. 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.