Sounds good! Sixty years after his untimely death, the music of pioneering guitarist Charlie Christian is being rediscovered by a new generation

From: New Pittsburgh Courier | Date: November 9, 2002 | Copyright information

Unraveling the mystique and influence of one of most innovative musicians of the last century, "Charlie Christian--The Genius of The Electric Guitar," sheds a floodlight of attention musically and biographically on his incandescent career that ended with his death at age 25.

Gathered for the first time in a 4-CD boxed set, the first comprehensive collection of Columbia recordings that Christian made while a member of Benny Goodman's Sextet and Orchestra from 1939 to 1941 (with one side trip on the Metronome All Star Nine), was released in late September on Columbia/Legacy Jazz, a division of ...

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