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Charlie Christian the original guitar hero
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Unravelling the mystique and influence of one of most innovative musicians of the century, Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar sheds a floodlight of attention - musically and biographically - on his incandescent career which ended at age 25. Gathered for the first time in a 4-CD boxed set, the first comprehensive collection of Columbia recordings that Charlie Christian made while a member of Benny Goodman's Sextet and Orchestra from 1939 to 1941 (with one side trip the Metro...
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Profile: Career of guitar legend Charlie Christian
Morning Edition (NPR)
; ... AM-12:00 Noon BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. At the dawn of the big band era, electric guitarist ... tuberculosis on March 2nd, 1942. He was just 25 years old. For NPR News, I'm Tom Vitale in New York. (Soundbite of music) EDWARDS: Samples ...
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Charlie Christian the original guitar hero
Westside Gazette
; Unravelling the mystique and influence of one of most innovative musicians of the century, Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar sheds a floodlight of attention - musically and biographically - on his incandescent career which ended at age 25. Gathered for the first time in a 4-CD
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Sounds good! Sixty years after his untimely death, the music of pioneering guitarist Charlie Christian is being rediscovered by a new generation
New Pittsburgh Courier
; 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
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Holiday Gift Guide: Entertainment.(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
Newsweek
; Kids may scoff at educational toys, but adults tend to be much wiser. Give the gift of culture this Christmas: 1. Words and Music Glenn Gould plays Bach's Goldberg Variations '55 and '81($19.98); Miles Davis at the '73 to '91 Montreux Jazz Festivals on 20 discs ($249.98); Charlie Christian invents
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Celebrating Oklahoma's jazz heritage
The Journal Record
; NEW YORK -- Wynton Marsalis, nationally famous jazz trumpet player who wowed thousands of people and touched a few hearts at the reopening of Oklahoma City's Civic Center Music Hall last year, led a jazz parade for the recent funeral of jazz great Lionel Hampton. Marsalis and David Oswald's Gully
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Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery electrified jazz guitar
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK When you speak about the electric guitar in jazz, two names stand out like redwoods in a spruce forest: Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery. There were electric guitarists in jazz before Christian, and many have come along since Montgomery, but these two still represent the touchstones
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Reflections on Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery
Morning Edition (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 NEAL CONAN, Host: The thumb inspired a generation of guitarists. Remembering Wes Montgomery, after these headlines from Jean Cochran. [headlines] CONAN: Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery became a household name in the mid-1960s with his lush instrumental recordings. [recording of `I Went Out
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Musical innovation in the blues of Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Black Music Research Journal
; Although a few other guitar-playing bluesmen had made records before Blind Lemon Jefferson, it is he who wears the crown for being the first popular star of folk (or country ) blues. His rivals for this distinction (i.e., his predecessors in the recording studio) either had brief and commercially
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Lucky Bag: Charlie Christian boxed set
The Independent on Sunday
; The jazz guitarist Charlie Christian is one of the unsung greats of popular music, having done more than any other player to give formative shape to the sound, technique and idiom of the electric guitar. To compete for one of 10 sets of The Genius of the Electric Guitar, answer the following
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Obituary: Chuck Wayne
The Independent - London
; Musicians on the whole are averse to the banjo. In 1963, in a move totally out of character for such a sensitive musician, the guitarist Chuck Wayne tried to bring the banjo into modern jazz, playing lines that had been used by the influential Charlie Christian on the guitar. "There's a banjo boom
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