Charlie Christian played the first electric guitar solos ever heard in a band. Rock music can grace some of its roots to this man and his work. Groundbreaking for its time!

When I hear Charlie Christian play,I get chills not only because his playing was so precise,hip and swinging, but that it had such an effect on the developments in modern jazz to come.He is one of those musicians who died so young that you can only wonder what might have been.But Charlie is still a major influence on today's guitarists.

I'll be going to Tulsa next week and I look forward to seeing the Jazz Hall of Fame and seeing Charlie Christian and the rest of Benny Goodman band

Love those saucy little double stops :)

Fantastic. You can hear here alltogether the Blues, ragtime, New, Orleans, stride, boogie, swing, proto-bebop,...and all Naturally blended. Soulfull.

@kmc56

5 жыл бұрын

It's called "modern jazz."

@2468Bubbly

4 жыл бұрын

Great playing. Always in time.

Excellent version of Flying Home, thanks for posting it.

Fantastic listening

This is great. Charlie Christian was an excellent guitarist.

@bernarddover1442

5 жыл бұрын

one of the greatest

@rememberingtruth

3 жыл бұрын

Nooooooooo

@musik102

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent? Charlie was far more than excellent.

@carolkaye5479

2 жыл бұрын

@@musik102 He set the pace for ALL SOLO GUITAR PLAYERS with his great aggressive and chordal note improv solos....and RIFFS, this is GREAT MUSIC AT THE CORE!! Charlie is who Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, Howard Roberts, all the rest of the fine Jazz guitars copied and was influenced by! The King of guitar soloing: CHARLIE CHRISTIAN! I never would have played/recorded so much music (over 10,000 sessions records, movies, TV shows) if I didn't know his playing, styles and inventiveness!

@SELMER1947

Жыл бұрын

Excellent ????? The Master !!!

History was being made with this recording. Long live Charlie Christian! Love your channel -- Happy New Year!

wow....i have never heard this one before....wow wow wow wow wow....

Beautiful

Phenomenal.

Big show for the new discovery. I was worried with the first couple of bars if he was going to be cautious. Then he was brilliant.

Happy New Year to you and thank you for a year of most interesting music.

i play a es150 because of him. love these mintons sessions

Charlie Christian set the modern approach of playing the guitar into motion.Fittingly,one of Charlie's after-hours jam partners was Thelonious Monk,who many heard them were described as " hand-in-glove" He was the main influence on the great Wes Montgomery.

Love it

Fletcher Henderson on piano! I knew Fletcher worked with Benny after the band battle with Chick Webb. Teddy Wilson also played piano fir Benny's small group. This track is amazing!

@charlesdahlin6502

4 жыл бұрын

jess stacy

@marcoleone7632

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlesdahlin6502 probably jhonny guarnieri ! ( waitin' to benny 1938/39)

@charlesdahlin6502

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcoleone7632 Johnny played piano at the Tail of the cock

@charlesdahlin6502

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcoleone7632Johnny Guarnieri played at the Tail of theCock for years. Jess Stacy played at Leon's Steak House. Great days in the valley!

RIP Charlie Christian, who died far too young.

La date d'enregistrement de cette mémorable session, est le 2 Octobre 1939, avec le Benny Goodman Sextet. Il comprenait également : Fletcher Henderson au piano, Lionel Hampton au vibraphone, Artie Bernstein à la basse, et Nick Fatool à la batterie.

@CroixdeLorraine

6 жыл бұрын

Guillaume de Saint Leve d'Aguerre Vous avez un bel nom, Monsieur!!☺️😉✝️⚜️

あなたの文化のためのブラボー、敬意!!!!!

@konidolfine

7 жыл бұрын

ありがとうございます!!!!!

There will never be another

AWASOME

Perfecto punteo de guitarra que sería conocido décadas después como rockin...,muy buena música!!

thank you CHARLI you are first your gitar................................. polish jest cudowna ,ROBERT ............CHARLI............................JIMI

Charlie's flying high on this one.

Charlie's solo !!!!!!!

Fire

it's a Lionel Hampton penned tune. It was reportedly developed while Hampton was in the Benny Goodman band. A gig in 1939 required the band to fly from Los Angeles to Atlantic City, the first time Hampton had flown. He began whistling a tune while waiting for the plane to taxi. Goodman asked him what it was, and Hampton said, "I don't know. We can call it 'Flying Home,' I guess. Hampton later confessed that the tune was a way for him to keep his mind off of the impending flight. The Goodman Quartet played the tune for the first time that night; later that year Goodman recorded the first version of the song, featuring a memorable solo from pioneering guitarist Charlie Christian. Hampton liked the song so much that it became his theme once he left Goodman.

The book Farwell Tour brought me here

For years I thought it was Teddy Wilson on piano.

Fletcher Henderson was a great composer but later on the played with Teddy Wilson who is an absolute god. If you don't know I would check out Moonglow by Benny Goodman and the album "Pres and Teddy" Along with Hampton, Christian and Goodman they where a revolutionary group in more than one way

insane groove

Whos the weirdo saying this is not Flying Home, Its Seven Come Eleven? Does he know jazz at ALL?? Fabulous recording THANK YOU for posting!! xxx

@williamlovelady7217

6 жыл бұрын

ClaudiaJazzy UK I think it is John Hammond he put Charlie and Lionel Hampton together with Benny Goodman . Benny married John's sister . John Hammond discovererd

@williamlovelady7217

6 жыл бұрын

ClaudiaJazzy UK sorry it cut off , John Hammond discovered Billy Holiday , Aretha Franklin , BobDylan, George Benson, Bruce Springsteen and was a big shot at Columbia records .But as you say the wrong tune title.

@williamlovelady7217

6 жыл бұрын

ClaudiaJazzy UK And by the way it is Flying Home.

@tonnyvasvisser4279

5 жыл бұрын

😃

@tonnyvasvisser4279

5 жыл бұрын

I like this all.

Different version than I’ve heard before

For a less genteel version look for the Glenn Miller version - he did more than play Moonlight Serenade and In The Mood!

@peterhenderson5714

4 жыл бұрын

Not genteel to my ears. Very striking original playing.

@monicabella7894

3 жыл бұрын

Forget Miller!

Fly

Charlie died in his 23rd year.

@chuckdahlin7003

6 жыл бұрын

Then he would have been 22! He passed at age 25.

この演奏ではわかりにくいですが、レスター・ヤングの影響を受けてますね。

Was this the second Spirituals to Swing concert?

@stangosnell1201

Жыл бұрын

No.

listen to his attack, done without a pick.

@sclogse1

8 жыл бұрын

+AnyMajorDude You can get quite a callus on a thumb. Problem is, once a while they crack open, and that's it.

@RodneyGeneJunior

6 жыл бұрын

Charlie always used a pick. Big heavy triangular pick. The one photo above was a candid shot, not a performance shot.

@alancard67

4 жыл бұрын

I have but one name Was Montgomery.

its nice and all, but its "seven come eleven" not "flying home"

@Astuddedbelt

10 жыл бұрын

I'm slightly confused. Are you trying to say that the title of the song is "Seven Come Eleven"?

@psomerset44

9 жыл бұрын

astanoriel Well, Benny Goodman announces the tune as Flying Home.

@louishead4495

8 жыл бұрын

+astanoriel this isn't seven come eleven. trying to "get" what makes you say that.

@debwings

6 жыл бұрын

I suspect Benny Goodman knows the songs he introduces, this one being "Flying Home," however, if you'd like to hear Charlie Christian featured playing "Seven Come Eleven" with the group, click on this link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4OiysWdcbCvnqQ.html

@brucetetley6477

5 жыл бұрын

That's all you know. It is Flying Home, Not 7 come 11.