Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar by Charlie Christian

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

Or any great master that appeals to you. I think Charlie Christian would have been as perplexed as I am. I mention this only because my story is far from uniqueóitís the way many aspiring guitar players stumbled into the art of jazz. Christian's improvisational style is his greatest legacy. In 1939, Charlie Christian, a bluesy jazz player from Oklahoma City, and T-Bone Walker (blues, R & B), who apprenticed with Blind Lemon Jefferson in TX, plugged in and changed everything. Charlie Christian, he is one of the original guitar legends. 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. I reproduce this reminiscence of Kessel's cited by Wayne E. The true masters of jazz guitar FIRST. 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! Goins and Craig McKinney in The Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, 286-88). .:::: A blog that will help you on your journey to master the art of jazz guitar.