Charlie Christian - Solo Flight download song

Such an old recording and yet it sounds so perfect.  True beauty.

sad he only lived to be 25.

My mentor Ronald Muldrow taught us about this artist in jazz appreciation class at Santa Monica College.

1.17 - 1.35 is jazz guitar perfection. All of it is really. Love how he plays between the horn hits while driving the rhythm. Guy was one of a kind.

I recently brought my dad's record player to my place, hooked it up to my component stereo, and THIS was the first LP I played. Thank you Charlie Christian! Wow!!

When listening to this,you can understand why Charlie and Monk hit it off so we'll.Both so modern and cool, particularly for the time period(40's)

LOVE IT when Gioodman comes back in like a silver sword or a heat-ray cutting through sweet butter.

Benny Goodman wasn't prone to giving faint praise, Benny spoke of the great Johnny Hodges and Charlie Christan glowingly.

I'm from Oklahoma, got to see his guitar, they had it on display at the Oklahoma History Museum. He was really great guitarist. His dad played piano at a club in downtown Oklahoma City. T-Bone Walker used to stop by to see his dad and would practice with Charlie.

Good grief that is such unbelievably cool music.

.and it all started because Charlie wanted to emulate Lester Young's tenor sax as a lead instrument. He went beyond Lester's imagination.( sorry to offend any here)

The Father of the EG

This is the Great beginning of a jazz guitar.

dude's never gonna get enough credit for his influence on bop