Legends Mix
Today's playlist brings us the pioneer on the electrical guitar - Eddie Durham. He had made his first recording of the amped guitar in 1935 when Charlie Christian was only a not-so-good pianist. Durham taught him to play the guitar, and just two years later, Charlie Christian was the sensation of Benny Goodman's band.
And Charlie Christian may have brought the guitar solo style to all his admiring fellow guitarists - but the jazz guitar solo originates from Durham, and it was out of a simple necessity. Louder rhythm work blew the fuses of the early equipment, so he had to limit himself to softly-played solos. In '35 no guitarist ever done a solo in swing jazz.
That's in today's show - and more, like a blueswoman whose dramatic piano chords and unusual melody lines were unheard of in her days, and ever since.
Playlist
- Big John Greer - Woman Is A Five Letter Word
- Herbert Woo Woo Moore - Something's Wrong
- Pee Wee Crayton - I Got News For You
- Flat Foot Floogie Boys & Slim Gaillard - Sploghm
- Erskine Butterfield - Monday's Wash
- Effie Smith with Jimmie Grissom & The Blenders - It's Been So Long
- Bea Booze - These Young Man Blues
- Eddie Durham - Magic Carpet
- Albert Ammons - Chicago In Mind
- Eddie Miller - Good Jelly Blues
- Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds Of Joy - Traveling That Rocky Road
- Mattie Hardy with Joe Williams & His Chicago Swingers - You're All Right With Me
- Dixie Rhythm Kings - The Chant
- Papa Charlie Jackson - Your baby ain't sweet like mine
- Sis Quander - Mama Is Waiting For You
- Victoria Spivey - Santa Fe Blues
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Cab Calloway - A Minor Breakdown (Rustle of Swing)
- Franz Jackson and his Jacksonians - Boogie Woogie Camp Meetin'
- Georgia Washboard Stompers - Farewell Blues
- Gone All Stars - Down Yonder Rock
- King Brady's Clarinet Band - Embarressement Blues (Sidewalk Blues)
- Lil Armstrong & her Dixielanders - Riffin' The Blues