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Charlie Christian - The Art Of Jazz Guitar by Charlie Christian

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

In his day, the guitar went from rhythm to lead instrument, and, not coincidentally, from electric to acoustic. In Woody Allen's 1999 film, Sweet and Lowdown, set in the '30s, Sean Penn plays a fictional jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray. Recorded in the early part of his The first five tracks feature Weston with bassist Sam Gill and drummer Art Blakey; the somewhat somber interpretation of “Sweet Sue, Just You” almost makes it humorous, but the highlights of the trio session are Weston's original works. John “Wes” Montgomery taught himself to play at the age of nineteen and created a style as influential to jazz guitar as was Charlie Christian's to an earlier generation. Some of his earliest guitar teachers This is where he fully immersed himself in learning to play jazz guitar. It is inexplicable that "Solid", recorded in 1964, remained unreleased for 15 years until Grant Green's death in 1979 since it captures Grant Green at the peak of his art . This little Spanish-inspired village has been associated The Charlie Christian International Music festival is a fun-filled music festival that celebrates the musical contributions of jazz guitar legend Charlie Christian, who grew up in Oklahoma City. His mother went to prison when he was 11, and Mickey spent his teens riding the rails and raising a little coin as a pool shark, but he was nearly 20 before he picked up a guitar. He regards himself the second His most recent releases, 2007's Ultraspontane and 2010's One Stolen Night, demonstrate the original vision of an artist who builds on a genre and creates something entirely new in the process. As a lesser player to the likes of Kenny Burrell or Wes Montgomery, there are those, like Michael Cuscuna (writing on the liner notes of "Solid") who see him as a thread linking Charlie Christian (the virtual inventor of hollow body jazz guitar) with great jazz guitarists of today such as Peter Bernstein and John Scofield. 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. In the world of American jazz guitar, one name comes up again and again: Charlie Christian. The ES-150 was the first electric "Spanish-style" guitar; previous electric guitars had been designed to be played lap, or "Hawaiian" style. Wes was an extension of the late great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, who played with saxophone-like single note fluidity. Today, John I was hearing Charlie Christian and Oscar Moore with the Nat King Cole Trio. Through his high school years, Josh attended the School of the Arts during the day, all the while continuing to perform and record at night and on weekends. The Paseo Arts district is located in the middle of Oklahoma City and it consists of a small street about two blocks long that has a variety of art galleries, shops and restaurants. Gleason, Wes expressed just how strong Christian's influence was on him. His mentors there included Gene It was during this period that he honed in on the jump-blues and early guitar styles of T-Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and Tiny Grimes.