I love how every time you have a discussion about the first electric guitar recording it always devolves into three people talking about the first electric guitar recording and ten people arguing about the first jazz guitarist (which clearly is another subject entirely).
The first recording of an electric guitar in jazz was by jazz guitarist George Barnes who recorded two songs in Chicago on March 1, 1938: "Sweetheart Land" and "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame" with Big Bill Broonzy. Many historians incorrectly attribute the first recording to Eddie Durham, but his recording with the Kansas City Five was not until 15 days later.
That is what I thought also. And this website seems to state that:gypsyjazzuk.wordpress.com/gypsy-jazz-uk-home/djangos-birth-and-early-childhood/django-stimer-pickup/amplification/
@@thebrazilianatlantis165 It's hard to know which sessions were, in-fact, electric and which were on a National. This one was apparently on a National. That's why it jumps out.
Yes, this is correct for Electric. AMPLIFIED guitar recording was in 1935 on Hittin the Bottle. The FIRST Single Line Solos recorded by Eddie Durham was in 1929 with Bennie Moten's KC Orch. George Barnes was about 8 years old.
Yes! Eddie Durham on guitar. Composers: Harold Arlen/Gorney/Harburg/Ted Koehler. Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra. Historic seminal Recording of Amplified Guitar. Recorded with a metal-bodied Dobro resophonic, non-electric guitar & Eddie Durham (e-g/tb); Sy Oliver (v). Recorded May 29, retake Sept. 23, 1935. Eddie said: That guitar has a piece of tin built in it, with little holes, but once I mic it, it sounded electric and loud.This is a historic seminal Recording of Amplified metal-bodied Dobro resophonic, non-electric guitar in the USA. Trombonist, guitarist, composer, arranger Eddie Durham won the ALL AMERICAN POLL for his guitar on "Honey Keep Your Mind On Me" with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, recorded July 8, 1937. Eddie Durham also mentored Charlie Christian. Durhamjazzdotcom
It's probably wrong to call a resophonic "amplified" in the sense that most people think of it. Yes, the metal speaker in it makes it loud and serves to "amplify" the sound. (A lot of bluesmen such as Tampa Red, Son House and Casey Bill Weldon played them to cut through the noise at the juke joint.) But most people think of amplification as meaning a guitar with pick-up that allows it to be run through an electric amplifier. HOWEVER, it's a great solo either way. My memory is that Eddie Durham wrote a couple of charts that bought his family a lot of groceries. He co-wrote "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" and, for Count Basie, "Topsy." He also worked with Glenn Miller after Lunceford and it is believed that he wrote (uncredited) the chart for "In The Mood."
wow very nice!! im a huge fan of christian and i didnt realy hear durham before, im impressed and gonna look for some records tonight, 30's 40's music are very great, very creative and such a nice mood..
"Sweetheart Land/It's A Low-Down Dirty Shame" recorded March 1, 1938 in Chicago by Big Bill Bronzy accompanied by a 16-17 years old guitarist George Barnes. This is a amplified-guitar record, like Roy Newman (western-swing musician) and his Boys recorded "Hot Dog Stomp" in early 1935 by the guitarist Jim Boyd for the label. The first recording with an electric instrument were made by Andy Iona in 1933. Milton Brown's slide-guitarist Bob Dunn recorded sides for Decca in Early '35,listen Takin off
The Bob Dunn stuff w/Milton Brown is king in my eyes. His stuff is the earliest electric I've heard. I'll have to check in to the other 2 you listed. Thanks for the good info
I don't know all of that but Andy Iona sounds correct to me, assuming that he is Hawaiian. Honestly, from everything I've heard, the steel players were the first to amplify -- either by a resonator guitar like a National or a Dobro or a "frypan" electric. In bigger auditoriums, they needed to amplify to be heard as their sound boxes pointed towards their chin rather than towards the audience.
I'm reading "Swing to Bop" by Ira Gitler. A few quotes concerning Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham: Eddie Barefield (played with Bennie Motan) "I knew Charlie Christian in Oklahoma city, . . He used to come and take lessons from Eddie Durham"; Biddy Fleet ( who also studied with Eddie Durham & taught Charlie Parker guitar voicings)) "Eddie told me of a boy from Oklahoma City that was playing a guitar that was electrified"; Mary Lou Williams about Charlie Christian "We'd sit down in the basement(in New York at the Dewey Square Hotel) and play from eleven in the morning, please believe me, until twelve at night. Now nobody knows his ability, .. Charlie Christian would be playing "Rhapsody in Blue" and all these heavy classical things".
When the Guitar Got a Pickup and Amplifier! It was A Serious Game Changer! Suddenly the Guitar was Able to Compleat With a Big Band! And Jimi Hendrix Was Only a Few Decades Away! Total Domination!
And in 1922, singer-guitarist Nick Lucas (who was not a jazz musician, who influenced greatly in Eddie Lang) recorded his first sides for Pathé "Teasin' the Frets" and "Pickin' the Guitar", not were jazz recording, only "novelty" for the days. The sound of the guitar was very influenced by ragtime banjo sound from the early 1900's, such as Vess Louis Ossman and Fred Van Eps (Heard "Way Down South" recorded by Ossman two times (one in 1903 and another in 1906) and compare).
It is generally agreed that George Barnes was the first to record electric blues. What is equally important is how sophisticated and expressive they were. But Durham has a honored place in the history. of the electric guitar And it does matter who was first. How else would we know our real history if historians and scholars did not do the research, giving credit where credit is due, instead of "fake" history?
I agree with you. Eddie Lang made the first jazz guitar solo in the 1924's sessions with the Red McKenzie's group "Blue Mound City Blowers", between 1924-1925. In 1925, he recorded with the orchestra of clarinetist Ross Gorman (Yep, who made the legendary glissando in the intro of Paul Whiteman's classic recording of 1924, "Rhapsody in Blue") "I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World" the first important guitar solo in a jazz/dance band. Listen the 1925 recording in Deezer or Ritmic.com. Cheers.
Man, listening to this music, it sounds so old, and yet it's still really enjoyable (coming from me who listens to synthesizers all the time). Funny how this would've been equally cutting edge/new at the time, especially with that amplifier thing eddie used
Realy, the first guitar recordings were made by guitarist Jim Boyd in the song "Corrine, Corrina" and others for the group "Roy Newman and his Boys", 4 years before Charlie Christian join to the Benny Goodman Sextet. Other guitarist named Muryel who played with the Light Crust Doughboys in 1937.
Wow! Two years of responses. Some good information, but a lot of misinformation too. No one knows who played the first jazz guitar solo. New Orleans bands featured guitarists since the 1890s -- the switch to the banjo happened in the 1910s. Lucas' early solo recordings not jazz -- more ragtime. Lang probably the first to record a jazz solo. Durham first with an electric solo in 1938 -- Barnes was in the studio a few weeks earlier, but playing straight up urban blues (though certainly jazzy).
The first electric solo was in September of 1935 on this song. The advent of guitar solos began with Eddie Durham jamming on this tune “Hittin' the Bottle,” which was recorded in late 1935 with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. It's cited as the first electric guitar solo on record.
Yet, Nick Lucas was a influence in other greats pioneers of jazz guitar, such like Eddie Lang, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, and even blues musician like Blind Lemon Jefferson style sounds "lucasian".
But the legacy of Durham in electric guitar i can not deny. He was the influence for Charlie Christian and Floyd Smith, but in my opinion, his solos with Benny Moten Orchestra not were incredible like Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson duet guitar solos, recorded in 1929.
@busessuck1 I love your spirit, suck1. And the depth of your research, too. Ever thought of applying for a professorship in jazz or historical musicology?
Why is everyone engaging in all this unnecessary debate over who was first etc? Blah blah blah. You forget the main point of music is to enjoy listening to it. Stop being so damed pedantic and ENJOY!
@busessuck1 I have not personally seen any of the original pressings of the early Lonnie Johnson recordings, but I wonder if someone else here has. My point was what evidence is there that these were identified as "jazz" and "solo" recordings by the artist, the record company, and audiences. (Blind Willie Dunn, if you ask me, sounds like the pseudonym one would have chosen when operating in the "race" market as a bluesman.)
Recorded 9/30/1935 HITTIN BOTTLE is Eddie Durham "AMPLIFIED" not electric. Durham was Charlie Christian's mentor who records a year later. DURHAM's recordings with Bennie Moten are the FIRST single line solos. Durham on FIRST recorded ELECTRIC g CD: "Lester Young KC Sessions 1938". EDDIE DURHAM FIRST ALL 3 INSTANCES. Post ANY earlier recordings, cause I sure keep hearing about them, but surely can't find them AMPLIFIED or ELECTRIC only. Amazon has these CDs. ENJOY WITH TRUTH, CREDIT WHERE DUE.
This guitar does not sound amplified. But even if it were, it would not be the first recorded e-guitar solo. This was played around 1933 by Bob Dunn. Durham, Barnes and Christian came much later.
Durham plays resonator-guitar. Dunn rec jan 27 1935 with Milton Brown. First on record with elg was (?) Joseph Lopez with Noelani Hawaiian Orch feb 22 1933 (UA-cam).
Recording dates? Label? details? Always willing to be corrected IF I'M WRONG. But details need to be posted before you insult online. Uncalled for, just PROVE your point please.
USA's EDDIE DURHAM facts: AMPLIFIED guitar recording 1935, JLunceford on Hittin the Bottle. BUT 1st Single Line Solos recorded by Durham are 1929 Bennie Moten's KC Orch... George Barnes was 8 years old. ED's 1st ELECTRICg recordings in 1938 EDDIE DURHAM & HIS BASE 4 (CD renamed "LESTER YOUNG & THE KC5"). Durham MADE his own amp & whammy bar (hanger). The amplification on his g was created by HIMSELF. He mentored Charlie Christian & Floyd Smith. The years AND recordings here for your research.
YES Eddie Durham, Charlie Christian & Floyd Smith's mentor & a decade earlier, ED recorded solos w Bennie Moten 1920's. 1st electric recordings: ED on KC5 w/Lester Young. SEE: durhamjazz. com/legacyguitar.htm I'd love some actual valid links to these other mentions of "firsts", which always pop up without any solid proof. TOPSY DURHAM
Cripes, it IS possible to enjoy the music and also discuss the history of it. Does coming on board and accusing people who don't know anything about of being pedantic constitute "enjoying the music?" Whatever. Obviously, it's not Lang. Apart from not sounding like him, he died in 1933. This does sound a lot like Durham, and he was, after all, a member of the band at this time. The stuff about the first electric guitar solo is involved (depending in part on how one defines "electric guitar")
@LongTallYamlaJay - Well, just wanted to make sure, about the identity of "Blind Willie Dunn". Obviously, you all, KNOW that. Durham and others were some of the best of the earliest days of (electrical) jazz guitar, and the legacies of jazz guitar (electrical and/or acoustic) of Durham, Lang, Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and others are great.
Fake, the first electric guitar recording were made by Big Bill Broonzy song "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame" and "Sweetheart Land" with the guitarist George Barnes.
Durham was not much of a guitar player - his work on The Kansas City Six "Countless Blues" is abysmal. Christian is famous because he really played electric and cut everyone, including Les Paul, who had the balls to admit it.
I love how every time you have a discussion about the first electric guitar recording it always devolves into three people talking about the first electric guitar recording and ten people arguing about the first jazz guitarist (which clearly is another subject entirely).
The first recording of an electric guitar in jazz was by jazz guitarist George Barnes who recorded two songs in Chicago on March 1, 1938: "Sweetheart Land" and "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame" with Big Bill Broonzy. Many historians incorrectly attribute the first recording to Eddie Durham, but his recording with the Kansas City Five was not until 15 days later.
That is what I thought also. And this website seems to state that:gypsyjazzuk.wordpress.com/gypsy-jazz-uk-home/djangos-birth-and-early-childhood/django-stimer-pickup/amplification/
Kansas City Five wasn't Durham's first on electric, he recorded on electric with the Basie band in '37.
@@thebrazilianatlantis165 It's hard to know which sessions were, in-fact, electric and which were on a National. This one was apparently on a National. That's why it jumps out.
But aren't there a lot of electric steel guitar recordings by western swing bands and Hawaiian bands in the same period?
Yes, this is correct for Electric. AMPLIFIED guitar recording was in 1935 on Hittin the Bottle. The FIRST Single Line Solos recorded by Eddie Durham was in 1929 with Bennie Moten's KC Orch. George Barnes was about 8 years old.
yes with a Gibson ES-150, by his own words
Yes! Eddie Durham on guitar. Composers: Harold Arlen/Gorney/Harburg/Ted Koehler. Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra.
Historic seminal Recording of Amplified Guitar. Recorded with a metal-bodied Dobro resophonic, non-electric guitar & Eddie Durham (e-g/tb); Sy Oliver (v). Recorded May 29, retake Sept. 23, 1935. Eddie said: That guitar has a piece of tin built in it, with little holes, but once I mic it, it sounded electric and loud.This is a historic seminal Recording of Amplified metal-bodied Dobro resophonic, non-electric guitar in the USA. Trombonist, guitarist, composer, arranger Eddie Durham won the ALL AMERICAN POLL for his guitar on "Honey Keep Your Mind On Me" with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, recorded July 8, 1937. Eddie Durham also mentored Charlie Christian. Durhamjazzdotcom
It's probably wrong to call a resophonic "amplified" in the sense that most people think of it. Yes, the metal speaker in it makes it loud and serves to "amplify" the sound. (A lot of bluesmen such as Tampa Red, Son House and Casey Bill Weldon played them to cut through the noise at the juke joint.) But most people think of amplification as meaning a guitar with pick-up that allows it to be run through an electric amplifier. HOWEVER, it's a great solo either way. My memory is that Eddie Durham wrote a couple of charts that bought his family a lot of groceries. He co-wrote "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" and, for Count Basie, "Topsy." He also worked with Glenn Miller after Lunceford and it is believed that he wrote (uncredited) the chart for "In The Mood."
wow very nice!! im a huge fan of christian and i didnt realy hear durham before, im impressed and gonna look for some records tonight, 30's 40's music are very great, very creative and such a nice mood..
"Sweetheart Land/It's A Low-Down Dirty Shame" recorded March 1, 1938 in Chicago by Big Bill Bronzy accompanied by a 16-17 years old guitarist George Barnes. This is a amplified-guitar record, like Roy Newman (western-swing musician) and his Boys recorded "Hot Dog Stomp" in early 1935 by the guitarist Jim Boyd for the label. The first recording with an electric instrument were made by Andy Iona in 1933. Milton Brown's slide-guitarist Bob Dunn recorded sides for Decca in Early '35,listen Takin off
Big Bill Broonzy
The Bob Dunn stuff w/Milton Brown is king in my eyes. His stuff is the earliest electric I've heard. I'll have to check in to the other 2 you listed. Thanks for the good info
I don't know all of that but Andy Iona sounds correct to me, assuming that he is Hawaiian. Honestly, from everything I've heard, the steel players were the first to amplify -- either by a resonator guitar like a National or a Dobro or a "frypan" electric. In bigger auditoriums, they needed to amplify to be heard as their sound boxes pointed towards their chin rather than towards the audience.
I'm reading "Swing to Bop" by Ira Gitler. A few quotes concerning Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham: Eddie Barefield (played with Bennie Motan) "I knew Charlie Christian in Oklahoma city, . . He used to come and take lessons from Eddie Durham"; Biddy Fleet ( who also studied with Eddie Durham & taught Charlie Parker guitar voicings)) "Eddie told me of a boy from Oklahoma City that was playing a guitar that was electrified"; Mary Lou Williams about Charlie Christian "We'd sit down in the basement(in New York at the Dewey Square Hotel) and play from eleven in the morning, please believe me, until twelve at night. Now nobody knows his ability, .. Charlie Christian would be playing "Rhapsody in Blue" and all these heavy classical things".
When the Guitar Got a Pickup and Amplifier!
It was A Serious Game Changer!
Suddenly the Guitar was Able to Compleat With a Big Band!
And Jimi Hendrix Was Only a Few Decades Away!
Total Domination!
Great recording! Can hardly believe it is from the 1930's!
i can believe it this sounds very old
nope, it's what I thought too, but the first improvised single string solo seems to be on "Deep Second Street Blues", with Eddie Lang on guitar, 1924.
Great. Thanks for sharing this.
Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Frankie Hutchinson, among others, doing solos early-mid-late 20's and early 30's.
Lightnin Hopkins . I feel his guitar playing is more ahead of it's time than any old bluesman
And in 1922, singer-guitarist Nick Lucas (who was not a jazz musician, who influenced greatly in Eddie Lang) recorded his first sides for Pathé "Teasin' the Frets" and "Pickin' the Guitar", not were jazz recording, only "novelty" for the days.
The sound of the guitar was very influenced by ragtime banjo sound from the early 1900's, such as Vess Louis Ossman and Fred Van Eps (Heard "Way Down South" recorded by Ossman two times (one in 1903 and another in 1906) and compare).
It is generally agreed that George Barnes was the first to record electric blues. What is equally important is how sophisticated and expressive they were. But Durham has a honored place in the history. of the electric guitar And it does matter who was first. How else would we know our real history if historians and scholars did not do the research, giving credit where credit is due, instead of "fake" history?
Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson were playing single-string guitar solos a decade before this recording.
Who says they weren't?
Durham's first recording with a electric guitar were made in 1938 with Lester Young's Kansas City Five recordings. I listen "Countless Blues".
No, with Basie in 1937.
un des meilleurs Lunceford !
I agree with you. Eddie Lang made the first jazz guitar solo in the 1924's sessions with the Red McKenzie's group "Blue Mound City Blowers", between 1924-1925.
In 1925, he recorded with the orchestra of clarinetist Ross Gorman (Yep, who made the legendary glissando in the intro of Paul Whiteman's classic recording of 1924, "Rhapsody in Blue") "I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World" the first important guitar solo in a jazz/dance band.
Listen the 1925 recording in Deezer or Ritmic.com.
Cheers.
Interestingly. Lang played but did not solo on a 1930 Frank Trumbauer record of Hittin' the Bottle
Electric Guitar Solos. The first recorded IMPROVISED guitar solo seems to be by Eddie Lang on "Deep Second Street Blues" 1924.
@LongTallYamlaJay - Well, "Blind Willie Dunn" was, actually ... the great, early jazz guitarist - Eddie Lang! Lang and Johnson recorded duos ....
Hot and nice. Good arrangement.
Man, listening to this music, it sounds so old, and yet it's still really enjoyable (coming from me who listens to synthesizers all the time). Funny how this would've been equally cutting edge/new at the time, especially with that amplifier thing eddie used
it sounds old because it's not equalised properly
Realy, the first guitar recordings were made by guitarist Jim Boyd in the song "Corrine, Corrina" and others for the group "Roy Newman and his Boys", 4 years before Charlie Christian join to the Benny Goodman Sextet. Other guitarist named Muryel who played with the Light Crust Doughboys in 1937.
Jim Boyd was recording with an electric guitar (not electric steel guitar) in September 28 1935, two days before this record were made.
+Patricia13386 Where'd you hear that?
Also on sep 27 1935 with Roy Newman
And this isn't electric, it's acoustic resonator guitar. As Eddie said himself.
And first recorded by Frankie Trumbabuer and his Orchestra, with c-melody saxophone solo by Trumbauer.
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I don't believe you.
Okay, I believe you.
So how do you like San Marcos? :P
Lovely town. Wish I was back there.
Jerry Renshaw it is nice. I miss parts of it, but overall I'm happy being out of it. My class did projects at the Durham house on occasions.
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Wow! Two years of responses. Some good information, but a lot of misinformation too. No one knows who played the first jazz guitar solo. New Orleans bands featured guitarists since the 1890s -- the switch to the banjo happened in the 1910s. Lucas' early solo recordings not jazz -- more ragtime. Lang probably the first to record a jazz solo. Durham first with an electric solo in 1938 -- Barnes was in the studio a few weeks earlier, but playing straight up urban blues (though certainly jazzy).
"New Orleans bands" The Bud Scott style was in New Orleans, and Lang decided to play like a horn player instead.
The first electric solo was in September of 1935 on this song. The advent of guitar solos began with Eddie Durham jamming on this tune “Hittin' the Bottle,” which was recorded in late 1935 with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. It's cited as the first electric guitar solo on record.
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THis song was composed by Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
Yet, Nick Lucas was a influence in other greats pioneers of jazz guitar, such like Eddie Lang, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, and even blues musician like Blind Lemon Jefferson style sounds "lucasian".
But the legacy of Durham in electric guitar i can not deny. He was the influence for Charlie Christian and Floyd Smith, but in my opinion, his solos with Benny Moten Orchestra not were incredible like Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson duet guitar solos, recorded in 1929.
Ed used a resophonic guitar.
@busessuck1 I love your spirit, suck1. And the depth of your research, too. Ever thought of applying for a professorship in jazz or historical musicology?
Why is everyone engaging in all this unnecessary debate over who was first etc? Blah blah blah. You forget the main point of music is to enjoy listening to it. Stop being so damed pedantic and ENJOY!
"the main point" You forget that one doesn't have to spend all one's time on the main point.
@busessuck1 I have not personally seen any of the original pressings of the early Lonnie Johnson recordings, but I wonder if someone else here has. My point was what evidence is there that these were identified as "jazz" and "solo" recordings by the artist, the record company, and audiences. (Blind Willie Dunn, if you ask me, sounds like the pseudonym one would have chosen when operating in the "race" market as a bluesman.)
@U012 but wasnt it charlie christian?
Recorded 9/30/1935 HITTIN BOTTLE is Eddie Durham "AMPLIFIED" not electric. Durham was Charlie Christian's mentor who records a year later. DURHAM's recordings with Bennie Moten are the FIRST single line solos. Durham on FIRST recorded ELECTRIC g CD: "Lester Young KC Sessions 1938". EDDIE DURHAM FIRST ALL 3 INSTANCES. Post ANY earlier recordings, cause I sure keep hearing about them, but surely can't find them AMPLIFIED or ELECTRIC only. Amazon has these CDs. ENJOY WITH TRUTH, CREDIT WHERE DUE.
This song was written in 1930, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ted Koehler.
sound acoustic to me, and brilliant playing.
vocals by SY OLIVER.
This guitar does not sound amplified. But even if it were, it would not be the first recorded e-guitar solo. This was played around 1933 by Bob Dunn. Durham, Barnes and Christian came much later.
+MrJimmienoone First were in 1933, but Dunn wasn't until 1935.
Durham plays resonator-guitar. Dunn rec jan 27 1935 with Milton Brown. First on record with elg was (?) Joseph Lopez with Noelani Hawaiian Orch feb 22 1933 (UA-cam).
Thank you for the info!
Recording dates? Label? details? Always willing to be corrected IF I'M WRONG. But details need to be posted before you insult online. Uncalled for, just PROVE your point please.
USA's EDDIE DURHAM facts: AMPLIFIED guitar recording 1935, JLunceford on Hittin the Bottle. BUT 1st Single Line Solos recorded by Durham are 1929 Bennie Moten's KC Orch... George Barnes was 8 years old. ED's 1st ELECTRICg recordings in 1938 EDDIE DURHAM & HIS BASE 4 (CD renamed "LESTER YOUNG & THE KC5"). Durham MADE his own amp & whammy bar (hanger). The amplification on his g was created by HIMSELF. He mentored Charlie Christian & Floyd Smith. The years AND recordings here for your research.
YES Eddie Durham, Charlie Christian & Floyd Smith's mentor & a decade earlier, ED recorded solos w Bennie Moten 1920's. 1st electric recordings: ED on KC5 w/Lester Young. SEE: durhamjazz. com/legacyguitar.htm I'd love some actual valid links to these other mentions of "firsts", which always pop up without any solid proof. TOPSY DURHAM
Cripes, it IS possible to enjoy the music and also discuss the history of it. Does coming on board and accusing people who don't know anything about of being pedantic constitute "enjoying the music?" Whatever. Obviously, it's not Lang. Apart from not sounding like him, he died in 1933. This does sound a lot like Durham, and he was, after all, a member of the band at this time. The stuff about the first electric guitar solo is involved (depending in part on how one defines "electric guitar")
You have the feeling Django Reinhardt heard this and was inspired... pushing him further...
@56conn6h I blame the SQA...
lunceford, sir
un morceau de funambule ....et de noctambule !
et de somnambule ......un morceau qui déambule !
Jimmie Lunceford
I'm here because of Charles Lloyd.
@LongTallYamlaJay - Well, just wanted to make sure, about the identity of "Blind Willie Dunn". Obviously, you all, KNOW that. Durham and others were some of the best of the earliest days of (electrical) jazz guitar, and the legacies of jazz guitar (electrical and/or acoustic) of Durham, Lang, Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and others are great.
every everybody except Jimmie hit the bottle ! fait tintinabuler les bouteilles ! (après I am sorry , les bouteilles se couchent !)
@jhb134 We all know that. And the point is...
Fake, the first electric guitar recording were made by Big Bill Broonzy song "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame" and "Sweetheart Land" with the guitarist George Barnes.
No.
1935
still more views than julian lage
Because NO ONE questions Les Paul when he makes false claims. If it were your family - you would want the record set straight, I think. Right?
"NO ONE questions Les Paul when he makes false claims" Untrue.
Great dialogue here, not for those who CARE LESS.
Charlie christian
Yes, but there was no improvisation, those two are clearly etudes.
That's how lead began.
I just go by the recording dates...
Durham was not much of a guitar player - his work on The Kansas City Six "Countless Blues" is abysmal. Christian is famous because he really played electric and cut everyone, including Les Paul, who had the balls to admit it.
Not amplified.
Not electrically amplified. The resonator guitar amplified acoustically.
@busessuck1 Well, what was that about taking one's own advice?
Perhaps you need to look at your vocabulary, especially the words: solo and jazz.