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Charlie Christian: With his Gibson ES-150 at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, October 1939

guitar, acoustic guitar · 1916–1942

Charlie Christian

Oklahoma City guitarist who made the electric guitar a solo voice in Benny Goodman's band and jammed toward bebop at Minton's. Dead of tuberculosis at twenty-five.

Sessions
5
Records
6
First date
January 16, 1938; October 24, 1939; November 22, 1939
Latest
November 16, 1944; October 2, 1939; November 7, 1940; January 15, 1941; February 4, 1945; March 13, 1941; December 20, 1939; September 24, 1945; December 19, 1940

On the records

Benny Goodman – Benny Goodman Combos (Quintet, Sextet, Septet) (Columbia CL 500)CL 500 · 1951Benny Goodman Combos (Quintet, Sextet, Septet)Benny GoodmanVarious Artists – Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow Mood (Blue Note BLP 5001)BLP 5001 · 1952Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow MoodVarious ArtistsBenny Goodman – Fletcher Henderson Arrangements (Columbia CL 524)CL 524 · 1953Fletcher Henderson ArrangementsBenny GoodmanVarious Artists – Memorable Sessions (Blue Note BLP 5026)BLP 5026 · 1953Memorable SessionsVarious ArtistsBenny Goodman, His Orchestra, Quartet and Sextet – The Great Benny Goodman (Columbia CL 820)CL 820 · 1956The Great Benny GoodmanBenny Goodman, His Orchestra, Quartet and SextetBenny Goodman Quartet – The Essential Benny Goodman (Verve V-8582)V-8582 · 1964The Essential Benny GoodmanBenny Goodman Quartet

Every date, in order

1938

1939

1941

1944