Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar by Charlie Christian

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

Jazz guitar pioneer Mary Osborne was the only female guitarist to realize a significant impact on jazz in the 1940s and '50s – and many aficionados agree. His influence as a A complete guide to Seattle's current art, film, dance, and theater season. In 1968 George Another great Hill District jazz musician was the incomparable Art Blakley whose Jazz Messengers were known world-wide. Of course there was the guitar branch of the jazz tree, which incorporates Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian who established the guitar as a solo instrument to show them what was possible. Fender Road-worn '50s Telecaster, before the Charlie Christian was installed. The jazz guitar festival and summer school began in the year 2000 when some extra money was made available by means of the Millennium Lottery Fund via the Arts Council of Wales. Here, in after hours jam sessions, Christian would exchange choruses with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, and other Bebop greats, as they developed this new style of Jazz. One of the first jazz musicians to explore the possibilities of the electric guitar, Charlie Christian forged an identity for the instrument and established many of its enduring qualities. Charlie Christian, (Charles Henry Christian) (29 July 1916 – 2 March 1942) was an American swing and bebop jazz guitarist. Christian's improvisational style is his greatest legacy. Georgie Benson- My homeboy who could play and do anything with the guitar and who was influenced by Wes, Charlie Christian, Aaron T- Bone Walker and the one and only the great of greats, Robert Johnson. As a teenager, Kessel was lucky enough to be able to hang out and jam (if only for a couple of days) with his idol, Charlie Christian. As the father of the electric guitar and grandfather of two members of Arcade Fire, Rey was a major influence on rock for decades. Musician friends encouraged her to drop by a local club called The Dome to hear the Al Trent Sextet, a territory band that included guitarist Charlie Christian. Christian was a key developer of Bebop, the language of improvisation, guitar technique, and was one of the very first people ever to take an amplified guitar solo! Georgie is still going strong recording and singing. His final public performance was with the BYU Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band. Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar, and is By 1936, he was playing electric guitar and had become a regional attraction, and jammed with many of the big name performers traveling through Oklahoma City, among them Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum. His earliest Along with Christian and the advent of proper amplification, Kessel was an integral figure in bringing the guitar out of its role as a strict rhythmic accompaniment and into the realm of being a dominant solo voice in a jazz ensemble. Charlie Christian, he is one of the original guitar legends. €It was the most startling thing I had ever heard,” she said to Ferris in GP. I went to his home and he played me Benny Goodman's “Rose Room” featuring Charlie Christian on guitar and when I heard that solo I realised that the sound I had been hearing was jazz and that experience changed my direction in life.