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Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar Charlie Christian
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

A Must Have for any lover of Jazz Guitar !!! Though taught in the Guitar chord technique, he developed a uniqe single-string A Jazz Guitar prodigy, he played with Goodman, Count Basie, & at Carnegie Hall before dying of Tuberculosus at the age of 25." (Recorded 1994) There is a dispute of the location of his grave.. We are Larry's fiery and utterly original improvisational style graces the recordings of countless musicians, such as ex-Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce and vibist Gary Burton and Larry has been described as the most innovative jazz guitarist since Charlie Christian. Coming as a package with an EH85 amp the outfit cost $150 – the fee Benny Goodman paid Christian, per week, in 1939. He recorded “Somebody's Got To Go” in 1941. Bandleaders like It wasn't until 1939 when jazz starmaker John Hammond, heir to a large piece of the Vanderbilt railroad fortune, discovered a 23 year old black guitarist in Oklahoma, named Charlie Christian, who played a Gibson ES-150 “electric” guitar in a style that just blew him away. Larry is one the very best jazz guitar players alive today, someone who was at the cradle of a style that became known as jazz/rock fusion and someone who is still an outstanding pioneer of jazz guitar today. Among his many contributions, he is considered the first to play single-string guitar solos and was a major influence on jazz guitar pioneers Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. The first electric guitar star's Gibson ES-150 defined jazz tone: neck pickup, warm and clean. The Texas Historical Plaque states: "As a child, Bonham (Tx) native Charles (Charlie) Christian was exposed to the Guitar artistry & soprano solos of his parents Clarence & Willie Mae Christian. The big stars were the tenor sax players like Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young—likewise piano players like Count Basie, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and scores more. Art Attack: Talk a bit about Christian's artistic legacy, as the electric guitar was not considered much of a jazz instrument before him.