Charlie Christian: Solo Flight: Best Of 1939-41 LP 12"" Vinyl Record 140g

Charlie Christian - Solo Flight: Best of 1939-41\nDespite having such a short recording career, the original guitar hero Charlie Christian single-handedly revolutionised the electric guitar. With having no direct influence on his guitar playing, he used the horn and reed lines he heard from the likes of Lester Young as inspiration to develop his unique single line phrasing \u2013 And so was born the guitar solo. No-one had been doing this before, but every guitarist has done it since.\nWithout this innovation, the guitar would still have been in the rhythm section and not used as a solo instrument. Christian tragically died at 25 of tuberculosis, just as he was jamming with cool cats Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker on the East coast, developing the future sound of be-bop.\nHe never recorded as a lead, but as a sides-man he was one of the hottest properties in the jazz world. In the two years of recording, he won numerous guitar awards, with Gibson christening the pickups he used ol