Benny Goodman Sextet Featuring Charlie Christian

by Benny Goodman Sextet, Benny Goodman

Overview

Over the course of Benny Goodman's career, the stars often lined up right and he found himself working in tandem with someone every bit as talented as he, whether it was Bunny Berigan, Fletcher Henderson, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton or Teddy Wilson. For a brief period after most of the above had left his employ, Goodman hooked up with guitarist Charlie Christian and the jazz world was never the same. Christian played in the big band and his "Solo Flight" was one of the first big-band staples built around the then new electric guitar, but his best work came with a handful of finely wrought gems as a member of Goodman's sextet. Sharing solo space with Goodman and Hampton, Christian gave the electric guitar a place in the music on sides like "Flying Home," "Air Mail Special," "Stardust" and "AC-DC Current," where his instrument seems to be bursting with ideas and ceaseless invention. Along with sides by Eddie Lang and Django Reinhardt's Hot Club of France, these are the recordings that made jazz guitar history. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	08/07/1989
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0074644514421

Tracks

1. Flying Home
2. Stardust
3. Memories of You
4. Soft Winds
5. Shivers
6. AC/DC Current
7. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
8. The Sheik of Araby
9. Poor Butterfly
10. I Surrender, Dear
11. These Foolish Things
12. Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
13. Breakfast Feud
14. I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby
15. Gilly
16. On the Alamo
17. Gone with What Draft
18. A Smo-O-O-Oth One

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Benny Goodman   Primary Artist,Clarinet
Benny Goodman Sextet   Primary Artist
Goodman Group   Primary Artist
Charlie Christian   Primary Artist,Guitar (Electric)
Gene Krupa   Guest Artist
Lionel Hampton   Guest Artist,Vibraphone
Count Basie   Guest Artist,Piano
Jo Jones   Drums
Fletcher Henderson   Piano
Johnny Guarnieri   Piano
Dudley Brooks   Piano
Nick Fatool   Drums
Georgie Auld   Sax (Tenor)
Ken Kersey   Piano
Dave Tough   Drums
Cootie Williams   Trumpet
Harry Jaeger   Drums
Artie Bernstein   Bass

Technical Credits

John Hammond   Producer
Benny Goodman   Composer,Leader
Jimmy Mundy   Composer
John Hammond, Sr.   Producer
Isham Jones   Composer
Jack Strachey   Composer
Count Basie   Composer
Frank Driggs   Photography
Fletcher Henderson   Composer
Francis Wheeler   Composer
Leonard Feather   Liner Notes
Eubie Blake   Composer
Raymond Hubbell   Composer
Michael Berniker   Series Coordinator
Mitchell Parish   Composer
Tim Geelan   Digital Restoration
Al J. Neiburg   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Gordon Clifford   Composer
Harry Link   Composer
Michael Brooks   Producer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Amy Herot   Series Coordinator
Ted Snyder   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Benny Goodman Sextet   Performer
Doc Daugherty   Composer
Ellis Reynolds   Composer
Gary Pacheco   Series Coordinator
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Charlie Christian   Composer,Performer
Holt Marvell   Composer
Lionel Hampton   Composer
Harry Barris   Composer
Allen Weinberg   Design
John Golden   Composer
Sid Robin   Composer
Sydney Robin   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Harry Beasley Smith   Composer
Tony Tiller   Package Coordinator