accompanied genius bebop cocreator Charlie Parker. On a tune titled “Keen and Peachy,” George played a now notorious solo that beggars description, or at least any description that would fit ...

It was T-Bone Walker and Charlie Christian, a Black electric guitar pioneer, who drew Mr. Freeman to the six-stringed instrument. “I would slip out of the house because I had to hear me some T ...

Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto saxophonist ...

Montgomery started learning guitar in his late teens, listening to and learning recordings of his idol, the guitarist Charlie Christian. Along with the use of octaves (playing the same note on two ...

Billie Holiday and Charlie Christian. In his teens, he fell in love with Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver ...

Some guitarists fell in love with the medium upon hearing the pioneers shredding before shredding even existed: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Robert Johnson, Charlie Christian, Chuck Berry. And yes, some ...

Charlie Cuthbert blamed the charged sociopolitical climate in Petersburg for what he said was a misinterpretation of an idiom ...

In 1936, Charlie Christian attached a pickup to his acoustic guitar. He liked how it sounded, but felt like he needed a bit more volume to play an occasional solo when performing in a band. This is ...

Bailey began as a jazz guitarist in the late 1950s, with a taste for Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, before the 12-tone music of Anton Webern opened his ears to new structures over which ...

An Oklahoma native, Wilson is coming to OKC on his Uncle Charlie's R&B Cookout Tour, which also features Babyface, K-Ci Hailey and El DeBarge.

The weekend started on Friday with a Blaze training day, organised by the Class Association and supported by RCYC. Ben Harden ...