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

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! Django Reinhardt Charlie Christian was the first modern jazz guitar soloist and notable for two reasons. His final public performance was with the BYU Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band. Source : http://classicjazzguitar.com/artists/artists_page.jsp?artist=12. 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. As the father of the electric guitar and grandfather of two members of Arcade Fire, Rey was a major influence on rock for decades. 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. The first L-5s had body widths of sixteen inches and were used by such prominent jazz guitarists as Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang and by scores of important musicians in nearly every genre since that time. 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. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. Herb Ellis certainly established his own voice and style of jazz guitar, but he has never strayed far from the voice of Charlie Christian. Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman's guitarist, was a great influence on my swing phrasing. 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. Charlie Christian, he is one of the original guitar legends. 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. Christian's improvisational style is his greatest legacy. 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. During his brief time as a recording artist, Lang proved the viability of the guitar as a jazz instrument.