The Brilliance of Charlie Christian 

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!!

Charlie christian is one of my favorite jazz guitarists and I think no one was even better than him even at that young age.

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

Very inspiring!

Wow, never heard BB King play like that. Nice.

Unfortunately died of tuberculosis at age 25!!...what a great loss it most have been!!...

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!

The jimmy hendrix of his time

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.

He had such great instincts as a musician and guitarist. A true gem.

Great listening. Just joined.

He's the greatest. Rocks it like no other.

He was the man. Every guitar player sounds like him (whether they know it not?).

Thank you man! Delicious

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.

Nicely played, brother!

You started out wrong.. Charlie passed away at 27 years old.

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.