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fletcher Henderson buys 10 song for 10 hamburgers and you don’t mention that he was a black man , interesting

He sold a song for $500 to a white guy ,you forgot to say “ Evil White Guy”😂

This is cool. The script loops and repeats itself in places between sections like unedited ChatGPT. Is the voice an AI sampler as well?

Charlie Christian was a key figure in the development of the guitar in the 20th century, however it was Lonnie Johnson born Febuary 8th, 1899, not Charlie Christian, who first influence the single note solo style playing that we hear today in Jazz, Pop, Country, Folk, Soul and Rock music. Johnson is often categorized as a blues Musician, but he was a lot more then that.

Those solos never die I still listen and am still completely amazed.

He and Jack Teagarden are my favorite bone player ever his solos are breathtaking. For me the mark of a virtuoso is they look at the standard limitations of their instruments and pay them no mind. They take their instruments to new level for standards of excellence. Jack Teagarden Sidney Bichet Pops Armstrong Dizzy Miles Aretha Howard Levy Wynton Sarah Vaughn Ella Chet Baker Raphael Mendez could play ever style and player a complicated classical piece while rotating his trumpet 360 degrees really complicated fingerings while rotating his horn all of them and so many more come to mind as true virtuoso’s. They can play or sing any style of music and it is at a level that few ever reach. Thanks for the tragic story of one the greatest ever.

Great video mate, that playing on Swing to Bop is outrageously good, one of the greatest guitar moments ever. I'm a fan of Mary Osborne who i believe was also influenced by the great man. Cheers mate.🎶👍

It always seems like the greatest people are deeply disturbed...

Another great video of one of my favorite most influential jazz guitarist thanks for posting this!! 🎸

A Name that is forgotten is George Barnes, same period, same impact, no one remember him.

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊

A couple of things that came to my mind: The stories and accounts of men showing up for important, often pivotal, meetings with others but wearing an ill fitting suit, or an old suit long out of fashion, or a loud suit where a conservative look is needed are striking in their simultaneous mix of pain and hilarity. Perhaps I'm missing something. Rose Room was a well established standard by the time of Hammond's engineered "performance audition" of Christian for Goodman's band. Why on earth would Benny Goodman think that Christian wouldn't know Rose Room? Reinhardt and Grappelli's incredibly beautiful and swinging version had already come out by 1937; it's a safe bet to think that Christian had heard it and loved it. Thanks for the video.

Thank you so much ❤

Before Charlie Christian the guitar in the big band setting was almost a percussion instrument. What a innovator! I once watched BBKing do a note for note demonstration of a Charlie Christian solo . Who knew?

Cool. Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for this Charlie Christian video! He is a legend. Your channel is truly amazing! 🍀

Just want to say with this video and in fact all of them you folks are doing wonderful work! Keep on going and may all the success you deserve come your way. Thanks for so much great content.

❤👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 this man deserves a whole documentary on his life. I've read about him in Francois Billiard's book. Short life but an influence that lasts, Wes Montgomery was one of his admirers. By the way, very good video! Thanks, really worths to have subscribed here :). Peace and Force! 🙏🏿

Splendid elocution Mr Alexander. Thank you. Peace.

Great video. Sonny’s contribution to the world of music is sadly overlooked. Just a few of the albums that Sonny contributed to that were not mentioned in this video: Dexter Gordon’s A Swingin’ Affair Grant Green’s Nigeria Jackie McLean’s A Fickle Sonance Lee Morgan’s Candy Lou Donaldson’s Lou Takes Off Louis Smith’s Smithville Johnny Griffin’s The Congregation I’ve an iTunes playlist of Sonny as a leader and sideman that is over 27 hours long.

It seems entertainment has always been dangerous because they mostly own and run it for personal gain still to this day. Writers get nothing, performers get enough to have to keep performing like a whale. All the owners didn't create but they own the copyrights. How did artist do this to themselves by being so hippy saying things like it is just creative expression. Targets for exploitation.

Al Capone, if alive, would make a great Vice President for Trump. They have the same ethics and political philosophy. And the same respect for US Law. And besides, Capone is a lot healthier and has about twice Trump’s IQ. I can see that poster TRUMP/CAPONE - MAGA.

Thank you ❤

Thank you!

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The music that's playing in the background of this video is sublime. Who's the composer?

One of the greatest stride players of all time💋He composed many songs that whyt people stole and put their names on it. He did write "I can't give you anything but love" which was used in "Bringing up Baby" with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. And he wrote "Sunny Side of the Street"

Fabulous! :) By the way here's a superb song about the King of Mobsters himself - I love this track and I'm sure it would have been appreciated during the Swing era too: czcams.com/video/8_b6VqA_x4U/video.html

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I shared an apartment in Rochdale back in 1970 and Lenny came along with an acquaintance of mine, an American expatriate who somehow got himself on the Canadian methadone program. I had a beat up old acoustic with bowed neck, 4 or 5 strings and a cracked top that Lenny asked if he could play. I said, well, you can try. I had no idea he was LENNY BREAU. I soon heard my guitar making music like it was a stratavarious of guitars.

This guy, this is not my kind of guy.

Barely a minute goes by on this without loud jarring ads. BAH!

As double bass player he is my idol, as maniac he aint an Idol...

In my early days I had learned guitar from a great guitarist from Thunder Bay named Kenny Moore, he showed me the pinch harmonics from Lenny Breau and the running baselines of Joe Pass. That era of guitar playing was quintessential for jazz guitar, thank you Lenny Breau.

Great video Do one in John Hicks

This cay had so much class

60 years ago last night he was taken away by some lazy fuckkking doctor. When I first heard this I just couldn’t believe it. How could a doctor overlook such a deadly outcome. Everything this so called doctor did was based on a stupid stereotype. How the fuckkk does anyone think a certain group of people go about life so identical to each other. It’s just so stupid to me. I’ll never understand it. We Miss You Tremendously Champ.

bird is to jazz as einstein is to physics.

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I was nine years old in 1962 when the Jazz Samba album was released Here in the UK, Desafinado was being played all the Time on the Radio, and i grew to love it, and the whole album, i have followed Mr Getz ever since. This is the first time i have ever heard that his father was born in London, which is where i am from.

Without question, one of the greatest trombonist I ever heard. Simply incredible technique and with a beautiful tone. I still cherish the Bethlehem recording with Charlie Mariano and Carl Fontana that he did. A very sad ending of his life but an even sadder one for those who are living with and silently dealing with what made him take his own life and that of this son.

Hey man sincerely i dont think id be a jazz fan let alone a bass player if it wasnt for you videos so thanks

Thank you for remembering Frank.

As usual, excellent!

I did a gig with him (and Buster Cooper) waaaaaay back when I was still playing....it was lots of fun....believe me...even on stage and what I already knew...that was a master class and I walked away having learned a lot! (Buster was a close friend...both of us Florida boys.....) Bruce Paulson...another of my 'bone playing pals (we went to college together)...told me about Frank's death...it was crushing.....

Urbie Green. 😊

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you're presentations are top class. thank you.

extremely professional presentation. thank you sir.

thank you for the serious, sensitive and respectful manner you spoke about my personal favorite jazz trombonist. i wasn't there and don't know what happened. i've heard different versions. his artistic ability was simply astounding.