After Hours Music Artist : Charlie Christian Music Label : Ojc Release Date : 2000-05-09 Artistopia's Price :$11.45
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No Description Available. Genre: Jazz Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 16-MAY-2000
Electric Music Artist : Charlie Christian Music Label : Uptown Jazz Release Date : 2011-07-19 Artistopia's Price :$18.05
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When Columbia Records released the Minneapolis' after hours recordings of Charlie Christian, the listener was warned, 'The technical quality of these selections is admittedly inferior to the commercial recordings.' Not anymore! New digital transfers from the original acetates restore the sound quality. Dating from 1939-40, Christian leaps into the room with his driving rhythm guitar and ultra-modern solos.
Here's the full story: Uptown Records acquired the Jerry Newhouse acetates. The collection contained the 4 tracks that Newhouse had recorded at the Harlem Breakfast Club in Minneapolis (after a Benny Goodman concert in St. Paul). Newhouse had contacted Columbia Records in the early 1970s, but provided the record company with analogue dubs (Jerry Jerome also received a set of these dubs). Analogue technology meant that the second generation dubs sounded muddy with no highs, whereas this Uptown CD contains transfers from the original discs. There is one unissued Benny Goodman track (Sheik Of Araby, from April 26, 1940), but what is important is that the Benny Goodman transfers are also made from Jerry Newhouse's original acetates. In the 1970s, Jerry Valburn issued some of these tracks on LP on his Jazz Archives label, but Valburn (and Jack Towers) never used the digital technology to make transfers and dealt with acetate noise by rolling off the highs. Yes, certain foreign companies have released these tracks copying Valburn LPs but nobody has ever had access to the original acetates and transferred them correctly - until now.
This CD presents an outstanding selection covering the whole career of Charlie Christian, the true inventor of electric jazz guitar. He is heard in studio sessions with the Benny Goodman Sextet, soloing backed by the whole Goodman orchestra and in an amazing rehearsal with Cootie Williams. As a bonus, are included three extended tracks taken from the legendary jam sessions at New York’s Minton`s Playhouse in May 1941. All time classic tracks by the musician who inspired all the jazz guitarists to come. Disconforme. 2005.
In the few years Charlie spent alongside Benny Goodman, he recorded solos on 70 different masters; this is but a sampling of that material. Includes Seven Come Eleven; Wholly Cats; Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special); Flying Home; Boy Meets Goy; Benny's Bugle; Gone With What Wind , and Breakfast Feud .
