Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar by Charlie Christian

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

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. Christian's improvisational style is his greatest legacy. Goins and Craig McKinney in The Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, 286-88). Why should a young person who's learning guitar listen to Charlie Christian? Charlie Christian – Masters of Jazz, Vol.3 – 1939-1940 .. Well, it wouldn't matter whether it was a young guy or not, Jas. This extensive blog article takes you on time travel. Jazz guitar legend Barney Kessel details his encounters Charlie Christian and describes the guitarist's technique, personality, and legacy. Goins is the author of several books, including the award winning A Biography of Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing, published in 2005. Additionally, a traveling photographic exhibit, Oklahoma: All That Southwest Jazz, sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council, is available to groups for a small fee through the Oklahoma Museums Association. Jazz Guitar Primer: An Introduction to Jazz Guitar Music. Charlie Christian, he is one of the original guitar legends. 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. Akin to Harlem of the 1930's – in spirit, if not in scope – Deep Deuce spawned such legendary figures as jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, “blues shouter” Jimmy Rushing, and internationally acclaimed writer, Ralph Ellison. Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar, and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. I reproduce this reminiscence of Kessel's cited by Wayne E. 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. It's just anyone that's interested in music or any art form – it wouldn't matter what it would be – you gain an awful lot by studying those people that preceded you. 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!