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The First Amplified Jazz Guitar Solos

How Eddie Durham, Leonard Ware, and Floyd Smith Set the Stage for Charlie Christian

Jas Obrecht
Sep 19, 2022
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Charlie Christian with his Gibson ES-150.

While honored today as the first influential electric guitarist in jazz, Charlie Christian was not the first to feature the instrument on a jazz record. During our 1981 interview, Columbia Records producer John Hammond remembered that two other jazz musicians were playing electric guitar before Christian: “One wa…

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