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| 1069.1 | everyone should check this guy out | OUTSRC::HEISER | Maranatha! | Thu Jun 08 1995 20:05 | 19 |
| I got my first exposure to this guitarist last night. Very impressive
is an understatement! I am taking a "Jazz in America" class as part of
my humanities requirement. So far I'm enjoying learning about a form
of music I basically ignored in the past.
Re: .0
> Transcriptions published by Giant Steps, referred to by Mark
> Gridley in his book Jazz Styles.
Ironically enough, this is our class's textbook. I'm looking forward
to getting some of these classics on CD.
For those of you who don't know, Charlie was Benny Goodman's guitarist.
The tune we heard was "I Found a New Baby." He's been given credit for
starting the technique of single-note lead lines. When you hear him,
you'll know why.
Mike
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| 1069.2 | It gets even better! | TALOFA::HARMON | Paul Harmon, ACMSxp Engineering | Fri Jun 09 1995 06:36 | 8 |
| >I got my first exposure to this guitarist last night. Very impressive
>is an understatement! I am taking a "Jazz in America" class as part of
>my humanities requirement. So far I'm enjoying learning about a form
>of music I basically ignored in the past.
Wait till you get to Pat Martino! 8^)
Paul
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| 1069.3 | the source | RANGER::WEBER | | Fri Jun 09 1995 09:15 | 10 |
| Personally, I'm more impressed by Christian. It's not that Pat isn't a
far better player, but he's built on many great jazz guitarist's
contributions. Charlie invented it out of whole cloth, all by himself.
In these days of superplayers, it's hard to understand the
accomplishment of a young player whose career only spanned a couple of
years, but every non-classical guitarist today owes an
incredible debt to Mr. Christian that just can't be overstated.
Danny W.
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| 1069.4 | | OUTSRC::HEISER | Maranatha! | Fri Jun 09 1995 10:00 | 4 |
| As I understand it, he was the first to use an amp too (to be heard
over the rest of the band).
Mike
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| 1069.5 | | TALOFA::HARMON | Paul Harmon, ACMSxp Engineering | Fri Jun 09 1995 10:07 | 10 |
| re: <<< Note 1069.3 by RANGER::WEBER >>>
All that history is there and is true, of course. But I'm not thinking
about any of that when I decide what seems interesting to listen to.
Pat just happens to belong to a period of jazz I enjoy more.
I certainly wasn't trying to minimize Charlie Christian's contributions,
though; my point was more "boy, are you in for a lot of cool discoveries!".
Paul
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| 1069.6 | | NEWVAX::LAURENT | Hal Laurent @ COP | Fri Jun 09 1995 10:44 | 16 |
| re: .4
> As I understand it, he was the first to use an amp too (to be heard
> over the rest of the band).
T-bone Walker claims he did it first, but who knows for sure. TBW and CC
were contemporaries (Walker was 5 years older). They even played together
for awhile in 1933 or so.
At any rate, early T-Bone Walker stuff is also very interesting listening
from a historical perspective.
Is any Charlie Christian stuff available on CD nowadays? If so,
any recommendations?
-Hal
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| 1069.7 | | OUTSRC::HEISER | Maranatha! | Fri Jun 09 1995 10:58 | 1 |
| Maybe his work with Benny Goodman is on CD?
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| 1069.8 | | TALOFA::HARMON | Paul Harmon, ACMSxp Engineering | Fri Jun 09 1995 11:25 | 5 |
| Yeah, there's stuff available - I know I've seen at least one CD in the
very recent past under Charlie's name (I don't remember the name of the
CD, though).
Paul
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| 1069.9 | prior art | RANGER::WEBER | | Fri Jun 09 1995 12:27 | 7 |
| No, there are several electric guitar players recorded prior to CC,
including the vastly underappreciated George Barnes, and Eddie Durham,
who had a direct effect on Christian's use of an amp.
"Solo Flight" is available on CD and is the definitive CC recording.
Danny W.
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| 1069.10 | | POLAR::KFICZERE | | Mon Jun 12 1995 06:32 | 10 |
| I'm a big fan of CC myself (not Deville either). For the record (from
the liner notes of "the genius of Charlie Christian",apperently he
lived a very short life. Started his career around 18 years and was
dead of a brain tumor (or TB, it's been a while since i've read them)
at the age of 22 or 23.
THe music on this tape (found in a bargin bin) is all from Benny
Goodman and his BIG band. I really dig it. Charlie was truley ahead of
his time.And a very smokin player!
-kev
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