#Mandatorygestureforapocalypse
T hose who are dear to the gods die young...
Charles "Charlie" Henry Christian (1916-1942), jazz solo guitarist, lent his beautiful Gibson ES150 to Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, to name a few... In just three years of professional career, he definitively emancipated the guitar, which had recently been electrified and amplified, from its role as an accompaniment in blues bands and especially in swing orchestras, elevating it to a bona fide solo instrument; he is universally recognized as the father of solo guitarists, and not only in jazz. Clean touch, clear phrasing, never excessive, always punctual for the solo. He admired Django Reinhardt's guitar style but candidly declared to be inspired by Lester Young's solos. For his undeniable and seminal influence on the guitarists to come in rock, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990. Cause of death: Bone Tuberculosis, which consumed him, as was common back then, quite quickly. He is buried in Gates Hill Cemetery, Fannin County, TX, and his gravestone bore no name until a few years ago when it was replaced with another that features his details and the epitaph "Your Music Will Never Be Forgotten."
SWING TO BOP (1941) by Charlie Christian
T hose who are dear to the gods die young...
Charles "Charlie" Henry Christian (1916-1942), jazz solo guitarist, lent his beautiful Gibson ES150 to Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, to name a few... In just three years of professional career, he definitively emancipated the guitar, which had recently been electrified and amplified, from its role as an accompaniment in blues bands and especially in swing orchestras, elevating it to a bona fide solo instrument; he is universally recognized as the father of solo guitarists, and not only in jazz. Clean touch, clear phrasing, never excessive, always punctual for the solo. He admired Django Reinhardt's guitar style but candidly declared to be inspired by Lester Young's solos. For his undeniable and seminal influence on the guitarists to come in rock, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990. Cause of death: Bone Tuberculosis, which consumed him, as was common back then, quite quickly. He is buried in Gates Hill Cemetery, Fannin County, TX, and his gravestone bore no name until a few years ago when it was replaced with another that features his details and the epitaph "Your Music Will Never Be Forgotten."
SWING TO BOP (1941) by Charlie Christian
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24 feb 23
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