Charlie Christian Dizzy Gilles ( )

Product Summary Label: Fantasy/original Jazz Classics UPC: 00025218193221 Release Date: 5/16/2000 Buy.com Sku: 60403041 Item#: M7VPSN Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Swing To Bop ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 2. Stompin' At The Savoy ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 3. Up On Teddy's Hill ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 4. Down On Teddy's Hill ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 5. Guy's Got To Go ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 6. Lips Flips ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 7. Stardust - (#1) ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 8. Kerouac ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie 9. Stardust - (#2) ~ Charlie Christian/Gillespie (P) 2000 Fantasy, Inc. (C) 2000 Fantasy, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Full performer name: Charlie Christian/Dizzy Gillespie. Personnel includes: Charlie Christian (guitar); Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Rudy Williams (alto saxophone); Don Byas, Kermit Scott (tenor saxophone); Joe Guy, Hot Lips Page, Victor Coulson (trumpet); Thelonious Monk, Al Tinney, Ken Kersey (piano); Nick Fenton, Ed Paul (bass); Kenny Clarke, Tom Miller (drums). Recorded live at Minton's Playhouse and Clark Monroe's Uptown House, New York, New York in May 1941. Originally released on Esoteric (548). Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather. Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (2000, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). AFTER HOURS is an excellent live document of the early roots of bebop, capturing this exciting music in the process of being built by its pioneering architects. Recorded live in New York City at jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's Uptown House in 1941, these tapes feature young modernists Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, and Don Byas as they pushed the structural materials of swing toward something new and intense. Beyond the historical significance of these sessions, however, the music is simply fabulous. There are revisions of "Stardust" and "Stompin' at the Savoy, " but the tunes are mainly blues-based improvisations, with plenty of syncopated play and stretched-out soloing from all involved. Christian's guitar takes center stage--his fluid, fleet-fingered style and mellow amplified tone have become such a stock part of jazz guitar, it is hard to remember that he almost single-handedly wrote the book. Though Gillespie gets double-billing on this set, he only appears on four of the nine tunes, but one can hear early hints of the advanced technical style that would explode in his work with Charlie Parker in the later '40s. This music is truly classic. Producer: Eric Miller (Reissue) Musical Guests Thelonious Monk Kenny Clarke Don Byas Hot Lips Page   Artist Overview Although he was not the first to make use of the electric guitar, Dallas, TX-born Charlie Christian's dazzling single-note style unshackled the instrument from the rhythm section, and his feats of melodic daring blazed early trails into bebop. In his short life he managed to dramatically alter the course of jazz and popular music. He's best known for his work Benny Goodman and his solo sides, but in the early 1930s he worked with a variety of "territory" bands, where he formulated his revolutionary approach. A victim of his own chaotic lifestyle, Christian passed away in 1942 at the age of 25. Artist Influences Benny Goodman | Eddie Durham | Lester Young | Mary Lou Williams Artist Contemporaries Charlie Parker | Cootie Williams | Count Basie | Dizzy Gillespie | Django Reinhardt | Edmond Hall | Fletcher Henderson | Georgie Auld | Johnny Guarnieri | Lionel Hampton | Thelonious Monk Artist Followers Barney Kessel | Billy Bauer (Jazz) | Charlie Byrd | George Benson | George Van Eps | Grant Green | Howard Roberts | Jim Hall | Joe Pass | Johnny Smith | Kenny Burrell | Tal Farlow | Wes Montgomery   Compilation Appearances Progressions:100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Guitar Visions   Associated Artists and Works Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benny Reinhardt, Django   Technical Info Release Date : 05/09/2000 Original Release Date : n/a Catalog ID : 1932 Label : Original Jazz Classics Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 51m : 6s Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : AAD UPC : 00025218193221    Product Image