Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian - FLYING HOME 

After hearing Charlie play my life changed. Along with my guitar playing. Thank you Charlie.

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.

Wow. My introduction to Charlie Christian. What a player ! Yeah. Words escape me.

Love those saucy little double stops :)

Beautiful

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

Excellent version of Flying Home, thanks for posting it.

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

This is great. Charlie Christian was an excellent guitarist.

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

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

Fantastic listening

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

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

Phenomenal.

There will never be another

Love it

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.

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.

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.

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AWASOME

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!

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

Charlie's solo !!!!!!!

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

Charlie's flying high on this one.

RIP Charlie Christian, who died far too young.

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.

insane groove

For years I thought it was Teddy Wilson on piano.

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

The book Farwell Tour brought me here

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

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!

Fly

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?

listen to his attack, done without a pick.

Charlie died in his 23rd year.

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