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Charlie Christian: When Lights Are Low

Read "When Lights Are Low" reviewed by Al Rearick


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

Read "The Complete Charlie Christian" reviewed by Craig Jolley


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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Swing2Bop

Label: Magneoton
Released: 2000

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Celestial Express

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1999

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The Immortal Charlie Christian

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1993

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Guitar Wizard

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1993

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Genius Of Electric Guitar

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1990

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Charlie Christian

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1988

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The Genius Of The Electric Guitar

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1987


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