With a well-researched and illustrated 44 page booklet, plus punchily remastered digital sound, The Original Guitar Genius is one of the most worthwhile Charlie Christian collections available. Tracks ...

Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of ...

Charles Henry Christian, born July 29, 1916, was an American swing and jazz guitarist. He was among the first electric ...

Charlie Christian was the single-greatest influence on the signature 20th century instrument, the electric guitar, even though he died at age 25 and did all his recording in under two years.

Nearly everything you need to know about Charlie Christian can be learned from the compilation album Charlie Christian – The ...

Some claim he was the first jazz artist to record with an electric guitar. (This might be true, but it wasn't a jazz song. In 1938, prior to the beginning of Charlie Christian's recording career ...

It doesn't get much better than seeing the maestro of contemporary jazz guitar playing an all-time Charlie Christian classic on the great man's Gibson arch-top When you purchase through links on our ...

Charlie Christian’s importance to the early jazz-guitar lineage is settled fact, but everything about his posthumously titled “Swing to Bop” remains uncodified. Here is a piece of life force ...

The foundation of jazz guitar was shaped by pioneers like Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, and Wes Montgomery, whose innovations in soloing, phrasing, and harmonic development continue to ...

William Lewis Byrd was born in Nashville, and taught himself guitar by copying the records of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. In the 1940s, Byrd backed the Oak Ridge Quartet (the ...

Never has a title of an album or anthology been more on the money than the new Charlie Christian boxset entitled “The Genius of Electric Guitar.” The more profound aspect of this collection is that ...