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    Clarence, born in 1911. Edward, Clarence, and Charlie were all taught music by their father, Clarence Henry Christian. Clarence Henry was struck blind by fever...
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    it immediately became popular with such notable guitar players as Charlie Christian, spreading its renown . Gibson produced the guitar with minor variations...
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    Era 1930–1945: Charlie Christian". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 22, 2007. "Charlie's Biography – Part...
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    in the early 1940s, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie pioneered the new music. Minton's thrived...
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  • The Genius of Charlie Christian is a 1972 double album collecting many of the few recordings that captured performances by Charlie Christian. Most of the...
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    Bud Powell, Barry Harris and Thelonious Monk; electric guitarist Charlie Christian; and drummers Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, and Art Blakey. The term "bebop"...
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    iconoclasts included Gillespie, pianist Thelonious Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian, and drummer Kenny Clarke. According to Mary Lou Williams, the group...
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    take long for Christian fearmongers to warn against calling on the nefarious spirit world." Pat Robertson denounced the Charlie Charlie challenge as demonic...
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    Barnes, Lonnie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, and Charlie Christian. During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important...
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    Retrieved 5 September 2013. Schillaci, Sophie (2 September 2013). "Charlie Hunnam to Play Christian Grey in 'Fifty Shades of Grey'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved...
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  • The Benny Goodman Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian: 1939–1941 is a jazz album by Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian. It was released in 1989. Fuller...
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  • often by jazz artists from the Bebop Era. These artists include Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie, to name a few. In general...
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    hit Verve album Organ Grinder Swing. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues...
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  • drummer. Apart from fellow guitarist Charlie Christian, Green's primary influences were saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker, and his approach was almost...
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  • Jack Yellen, 1927) Air Mail Special (Benny Goodman, James Mundy and Charlie Christian, 1941) Ain't We Got Fun? (Richard A. Whiting and Raymond B. Egan and...
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    electrified guitar to soar. Due to Christian's close association with the ES-150 it began being referred to as the "Charlie Christian Model" and Gibson's now famous...
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    those of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger...
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    metal for the ES-100/125 series as an alternative to the classic Charlie Christian pickup. Officially, P-90 pickups were introduced in 1946, when Gibson...
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    journeyman musician with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Stuff Smith, Charlie Christian, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole and Roy Milton. Following...
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  • featuring standards associated with the Benny Goodman Sextet and Charlie Christian recorded in 1966 and 1967 and released on the Verve label. Allmusic...
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    commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie Christian. In 1944, Gibson was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI),...
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  • Heartbreakers, and Glenn Frey of The Eagles. A Les Paul Junior (with a Charlie Christian pickup added in the neck position) also became John Lennon's main...
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    with making the first electric guitar solo, but it was ES-150 player Charlie Christian who popularized the jazz guitar as a solo, not just a rhythm, instrument...
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    "The Christian Radio Network Working To Reelect Trump". HuffPost. Retrieved May 9, 2021. Salem Media Group (September 1, 2020). "SRN Adds The Charlie Kirk...
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  • and by the 1930s the banjo hardly existed as a jazz instrument. Charlie Christian was the first guitarist to explore the possibilities created by amplification...
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    Newsom in 2007 in Tennessee, U.S. Charlie Christian (1916–1942), American swing and jazz guitarist Clara Marguerite Christian (1895–1964), first black woman...
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    photographs of Charlie Christian. It had a natural finish and a twenty fret fingerboard and slight variations on the Charlie Christian pickup, as it has...
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    Trucks, born in March 2002, is named for saxophonist Charlie Parker, guitarist Charlie Christian, and author Kahlil Gibran; and Sophia Naima Trucks, born...
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  • of the electric guitar, first recorded as a virtuoso instrument by Charlie Christian. In 1938, promoter and record producer John H. Hammond staged the...
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    example, it is the basis of Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" as well as Charlie Christian's "Seven Come Eleven," Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts," and Thelonious...
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