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When Lights Are Low

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2001
Track listing: Blues in B; Till Tom Special; I Found a New Baby; Flying Home; Seven Come Eleven; Air Mail Special; Six Appeal; Wholly Cats; Breakfast Feud; Stardust; Solo Flight; AC-DC Current; Rose Room; Haven

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Seven Come Eleven

By Charlie Christian

Label: Magneoton
Released: 2001

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The Complete Charlie Christian

By Charlie Christian

Label: Definitive Records
Released: 2001

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Charlie Christian: When Lights Are Low

by Al Rearick
October 1, 2001

For everyone wondering if and when Sony will ever get around to upgrading the CDs of music by legendary guitar-player Charlie Christian, well...I guess we’ll have to keep waiting. In the meantime, though, the good folks at Catfish Records have beaten Sony to the punch with their great-sounding compilation of prime Christian, When Lights Are Low. ...

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Charlie Christian: The Complete Charlie Christian

by Craig Jolley
August 1, 2001

Note: This review covers the four-disk sets The Complete Studio Recordings and The Complete Live Recordings. Charlie Christian is often described as the first great electric guitar soloist, but he was more. Together with Lester Young, Nat Cole, Coleman Hawkins, and Roy Eldridge he paved the way for bebop by stretching swing era rhythmic and harmonic ...

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