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The Brilliance of Charlie Christian
A mini-documentary about Charlie Christian. Featuring interviews with Jim Hall, Tal Farlow, B.B. King and Doug Raney.
Despite his untimely death at the age of 25, Charlie Christian remains the most influential jazz guitarist in history. The arrival of amplification meant that single line guitar solos could now be heard over the rest of the band. Playing with The Benny Goodman Sextet, Charlie had a wide-reaching influence. His soloing style has been a model for all subsequent players, not just guitarists. He is considered by many to have been one of the founding fathers of bebop and most guitarists would agree that he was the first to realise the potential of the electric guitar.
Despite his untimely death at the age of 25, Charlie Christian remains the most influential jazz guitarist in history. The arrival of amplification meant that single line guitar solos could now be heard over the rest of the band. Playing with The Benny Goodman Sextet, Charlie had a wide-reaching influence. His soloing style has been a model for all subsequent players, not just guitarists. He is considered by many to have been one of the founding fathers of bebop and most guitarists would agree that he was the first to realise the potential of the electric guitar.
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The Brilliance of Eddie Lang
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A mini-documentary about Eddie Lang, "the father of jazz guitar". Although he remains a relatively obscure figure to the wider population, Eddie Lang is celebrated as the father of jazz guitar amongst musicians. Born Salvatore Massaro, he was the son of an Italian-American instrument maker and grew up surrounded by music. As a teenager he adopted the anglicised name Eddie Lang and soon after hi...
Wow - I've never heard of Eddie Lang till now. He sounds an amazing guitarist for any time, and the first appearance in this video reminds me of the style of Django Reinhardt.
Dango Reinhardt was a very big Eddie Lang fan. While in the UK, he listened to everything of Lang he could find :) And Bing Crosby, sadly spent the rest of his days regretting telling Eddie to get that operation.
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
This is just one of the more popular jazz guitarist of that time. There were lots of forgotten excellent jazz guitarists before him, also during his time. I blame lack of archivation and research for this.
This is great info. But the narrator begins just as Lang begins playing…. Can’t hear the playing.
Her voice...
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.
eddie lang and later django !!! two genius ! es ! lol !
Charlie christian is one of my favorite jazz guitarists and I think no one was even better than him even at that young age.
What about Django Reinhardt ?
Django reinhardt was a great gypsy jazz guitarist and charlie christian was a bebop jazz guitarist, both of the genre are different and both of them were great in their genre. But in my opinion I like bebop jazz more.
@@ananyaraj8951 Django played swing. Had a french gypsy background but played his take on american swing.
@@patrickevelyn8028 so may be I was wrong about him
But even now I think that charlie christian was even better than him
Charlie christian is one of the founding fathers of bebop jazz, it's absolutely right
One must also check out Eddie Lang's collaboration with Lonnie Johnson. Those recordings are amazing.
They are amazing! And in an interesting note, Eddie Lang was credited as Blind Willie Dunn on the records at the time to mask the fact that a black musician and a white musician were recording together. And easily some of the greatest guitar recordings ever by two guitarists at their peaks!
Why is this man not a household name?
His playing with Lonnie Johnson is how I learned of him.
My favourites are the collaborations with Lonnie Johnson - Hot Fingers is a timeless tour de force.
So right! The blue guitars.
If you know and love Eddie's music you'll start to hear his playing on a lot of People's records. Emmett Miller for example. It seems like he just didn't get the credit in his short life for all the sides he played on as a session musician. Kind of the same story as Tampa Red who ended up dying broke in obscurity
Just started to hear Eddie's music. My guitar teacher gave me a huge playlist with jazz guitar players and his music catched my ear. It's the first time I hear a guitarist older than Charlie Christian. I can't wait to transcribe some of his music
Lang was allegedly a big fan of Snoozer Quinn.
grazie for all you give us dear signor massaro
I love his playing. He was under-appreciated as an accompanist. Listen to his recordings with Ruth Etting (first here), Bing Crosby and Annette Henshaw.
His fantastic playing with the great Lonnie Johnson produced some duets that are still unsurpassed, imo.
@@richardmindemann6935 Thanks, will check that out. The more I listen to him the more I admire him.
You started out wrong.. Charlie passed away at 27 years old.
Died age 25, fact! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Christian
So I'm actually friends of his family and heard a lot about him growing up, and showed this to his family and we all wanted to say thank you for making this mini documentary. very much appreciated to have him get respect
Eddie was loved by many famous guitarists including George Harrison from a group called The Beatles!
Hey, I've heard of them!!! 😉 No, seriously, I'm not surprised that George appreciated Eddie. George was always a guy who didn't try to play "flashy for the sake of flashy", but wanted his playing to be "in service to the song." Seems like Eddie was that way too. I'm really glad I ran across this video today!
Yes, I can definitely see the influence of Eddie Lang in the way George Harrison plays.
The Beatles who are they ? You mean the Traveling Wilburys don't you ?
@@timeWaster76 The Beatles, surely you've heard of them! They become the worlds biggest band after being heavily influenced by The Monkeys. 😉
They stole their act you mean That one guy Paul I guess, used to be in wings @@indefence7214
Wow! Thank you so much for this! So great to see him accompanying Ruth Etting.
He was the man. Every guitar player sounds like him (whether they know it not?).
Except Django 😁
Bing Crosby killed Eddie Lange. OMG
No it was death by doctor, all the- go today.
Killed by both. Tragedy.
He’s my favorite guitar player, and my Inspiration!
You have extraordinarily good taste my friend
Thank you !!!👍🎸
Nicely done.
Well done. Thank you.
Nicely played, brother!
He's the greatest. Rocks it like no other.
He had such great instincts as a musician and guitarist. A true gem.
ALMOST single handedly replaced banjo with guitar in jazz? Django contributed at least 2 fingers 😉
The jimmy hendrix of his time
Unfortunately died of tuberculosis at age 25!!...what a great loss it most have been!!...
- Alla chitarra, Eddie Lang! - ma nun era muort? Oh uajù, nun facit i sciem
Then why are you here ?
Comparing Lang to Django is like comparing Liberace to Vladimir Horowitz :-)
Reading your posts is like smelling a fart.
@@muhrvis Whoa! Quite the Oscar Wilde aren't we? :-)
Why they played almost the same style actually the same style Jazz Django was only gypsy influenced
@@micoveliki8729 @Mico Veliki Django was far more influenced by French classical music than Gypsy music (you know he didn't record ONE Gypsy song in his entire life except for Ochichanya 'Dark Eyes' and a tune called Tears) But Django's technical virtuosity and more importantly his musical imagination was on a much higher level than Eddie Lang's. Django can only be compared with the greatest classical virtuosos like Heifetz or Vladimir Horowitz.Listen to him play his ''Mystery Pacific'' or his astonishing ''Improvisation No.1'' from 1937.Its staggering transcendental playing not just technically but musically as well...no doubt Eddie was a good solid jazzman but its absurd to think he and Django are somehow on the same level.Just use your ears!!
@@fennelleastman8816: It's a bit unfair to Eddie Lang to make that comparison, since Django lived long enough to have a full and varied career. It might be more fair to compare Django's first six years of performance to Lang's short time in music.
Disappointing
why? what exactly is disappointing?
Thanks not enough people no the true history and Eddie’s pivotal role it with regards to jazz guitar!
Great doco! Thank you
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!
This talking over the music stuff is strictly square
Why no word of Lonnie Johnson?? Eddie Lang played duets with him. And Lonnie Johnson is the father of modern guitar playing... ua-cam.com/video/V2bwIscUA_o/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HeinzBecker
Wow, never heard BB King play like that. Nice.
I would have loved to hear him play some straight jazz. He had some licks apparently. I only heard him doing blues.
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.
Why no mention of Lonnie Johnson? Another really productive important partnership. Is it because he had to go under the name of 'Blind Willie Dunn' to cover his friendship with, and admiration for, a black musician?
It was not allowed for Blacks and Whites to record togejter back then. Thats Why they gave Lonnie a different name back them.
This is a video about Eddie Lang specifically lol, shouldn't be a suprise they're talking about the father of jazz guitar and not Lonnie Johnson, who was a blues player.
@@busterdouglas593this is not really true, on their duo recordings Lonnie played mostly the mindblowing jazz solo lines and Eddie the rhytm, so Lonnie can be as much, or even more considered to be the father of jazz guitar. And also electric blues . A man, who inspired Django, Charlie Christian , and T Bone Walker..
Anthony Mitchell Django was the greatest, but don't forget that he was inspired by Eddie.
There will never be anyone will compare to Django Reinhardt
Django was the greatest, but don't forget that he was inspired by Edie.
Lang is the father, Django the son, and Oscar Aleman the holy ghost.
they are two artists with distinct differences and in their own ways are top players, I don't really believe in the concept of "best / better" I take something from all the top guys.
@@TheJazzcritic when Django dont was the Best, why are all they Guitar Players inspired from Django. Al di Meola, John Mclauglin, George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, B.B. King and many many others, also many Rock Guitarist
who gives a flying f*ck about django ? This video isn't about him , it's about Eddie Lang, the guitarist who inspired Django to start playing American Popular music
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.
I wish there were decades of more Charlie Christian to hear and I also would have loved to hear BB King play some more jazz. I'm sure if he had practiced it a bit he could have ripped on a few numbers.
Thank you man! Delicious