Dozens of compilations have been devoted to the recorded evidence of Benny Goodman's brief but fortuitously well-documented collaborative friendship with jazz guitarist Charlie Christian (1916-1942). The producers of the Masters of Jazz series have handled the Charlie Christian story more meticulously than nearly anyone else in the business. Because the guitarist didn't live long enough to establish himself as a leader, he exists in history as the eternal sideman who also happens to have been one of the very first ...
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Dozens of compilations have been devoted to the recorded evidence of Benny Goodman's brief but fortuitously well-documented collaborative friendship with jazz guitarist Charlie Christian (1916-1942). The producers of the Masters of Jazz series have handled the Charlie Christian story more meticulously than nearly anyone else in the business. Because the guitarist didn't live long enough to establish himself as a leader, he exists in history as the eternal sideman who also happens to have been one of the very first progressively modern improvisers in jazz. Volume three in the series takes on selected recordings made between December 2, 1939 and June 4, 1940. Most of these records involve the Benny Goodman Sextet, with four renditions of "Gone with What Wind" and three versions of "Sheik of Araby" providing the studious listener with plenty of opportunities for savoring and comparing the solos. On February 7, 1940 Christian and Goodman recorded, with a group composed of poll-winners billed as the Metronome All-Star Nine, something called the "All Star Strut," represented here by a breakdown lasting only one minute and twenty seconds and two complete takes that swing like crazy. For those whose appetites are merely whetted by this excellent core sample of musical history, Masters of Jazz also released a set combining the first four volumes of Charlie Christian's oeuvre from the years 1939-1940, capped by a single fifth volume to polish off this portion of their in-depth survey of this artist's intriguing recorded legacy. ~ arwulf arwulf, Rovi
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