The Brilliance of Charlie Christian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- A mini-documentary about Charlie Christian. Featuring interviews with Jim Hall, Tal Farlow, B.B. King and Doug Raney.
Despite his untimely death at the age of 25, Charlie Christian remains the most influential jazz guitarist in history. The arrival of amplification meant that single line guitar solos could now be heard over the rest of the band. Playing with The Benny Goodman Sextet, Charlie had a wide-reaching influence. His soloing style has been a model for all subsequent players, not just guitarists. He is considered by many to have been one of the founding fathers of bebop and most guitarists would agree that he was the first to realise the potential of the electric guitar.
Charlie christian is one of the founding fathers of bebop jazz, it's absolutely right
Charlie Christian was and will always be a great inspiration for all guitar players!!
He had such great instincts as a musician and guitarist. A true gem.
Charlie christian is one of my favorite jazz guitarists and I think no one was even better than him even at that young age.
What about Django Reinhardt ?
Django reinhardt was a great gypsy jazz guitarist and charlie christian was a bebop jazz guitarist, both of the genre are different and both of them were great in their genre. But in my opinion I like bebop jazz more.
@@ananyaraj8951 Django played swing.
Had a french gypsy background but played his take on american swing.
@@patrickevelyn8028 so may be I was wrong about him
But even now I think that charlie christian was even better than him
He's the greatest. Rocks it like no other.
He was unequivocally a genius but on top of that I have a taste for his lines and his tone. He is a giant in my eyes
Getting a chair with an established star like Benny Goodman thrust Charlie into the limelight from the get-go. His talent did the rest. His live recordings are the sh*t!
Great listening. Just joined.
Unfortunately died of tuberculosis at age 25!!...what a great loss it most have been!!...
He was the man. Every guitar player sounds like him (whether they know it not?).
Except Django 😁
Wow, never heard BB King play like that. Nice.
I would have loved to hear him play some straight jazz. He had some licks apparently. I only heard him doing blues.
Very inspiring!
Thank you man! Delicious
Nicely played, brother!
It's often been said that with the arrival of amplification, guitar players could compete with the horns as soloists BUT they never did try to compete, but seemed happy to play with a tone that was simply a louder version of the acoustic guitar. With Charlie's Minton recordings we got a taste of what might have seen. Indeed, had Charlie lived, I believe that the guitar in jazz would have taken a different route. For example, I believe that Charlie wanted to play with a distorted sound ( no doubt hopping to capture some of the passionate sounds of the horns ), and was trying to get an amp that would give him that sound.
The jimmy hendrix of his time
You started out wrong.. Charlie passed away at 27 years old.
Died age 25, fact!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Christian
B.B. King my Hero does always downtalk his Knowledge of Jazz. The Sound he has appeals to me more than the usual Jazz Guitar Sound, but I started listening to Rock and Blues and that spoiled me a bit. Those Jazz Guitar Players know what there doing but they Sound so neat and nice, as if they want to please their Teachers or future Mothers in Law.
I have to ad that i can not play Music, the best thing about Music is to tease and slightly troll Jazz Guitar Freaks. The famous German Jazzcritic and Promoter and Jazzhistorian Joachim-Ernst Behrendt, wrote in his Jazzbook that every modern Electric Jazzguitarist owes B.B. King quite s bit, wether they know it or not and if its "only" to avoid him. Charlie Christian sadly could not owe B.B. King some.....okay!! I have to stop trolling around. I wish there was more Charlie Christian to hear in better Sound Quality, but one has to take what he gets, so did B.B. King and so will I. Charlie Christian was a Genius.
I wish there were decades of more Charlie Christian to hear and I also would have loved to hear BB King play some more jazz. I'm sure if he had practiced it a bit he could have ripped on a few numbers.
In order to play jazz, your talking voice has to be cool, low key, laid back, lugubriousness, can't play jazz unless you talk like that.