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