INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

This release features ome of the best live recordings by the celebrated Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian. Taken from rare radio broadcasts, they present the magic of Christian’s guitar during his short-lived three-year music career, before he succumbed to tuberculosis in early 1942. As a bonus, the complete 1939 jam session by the Jerry Jerome Quartet, showcasing extended solos by Christian.

PERSONNEL:

CHARLIE CHRISTIAN, electric guitar BENNY GOODMAN, clarinet on all tracks plus:

Cootie Williams (tp), Lionel Hampton (vib), Georgie Auld, Jerry Jerome (ts),
Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Johnny Guarnieri, Teddy Wilson (p),
Oscar Pettiford, Artie Bernstein (b), Nick Fatool, Gene Krupa (d),
and many others.

Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York, from 1939 to 1941.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 STARDUST
02 FLYING HOME
03 ROSE ROOM
04 SOUTH OF THE BORDER
05 DINAH
06 GONE WITH “WHAT” WIND
07 THE SHEIK OF ARABY
08 AC/DC CURRENT
09 BENNY’S BUGLE
10 WHOLLY CATS
11 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
12 FLYING HOME
13 AIR MAIL SPECIAL
14 IDA, SWEET AS APPLE CIDER
15 BREAKFAST FEUD
16 SONG OF THE ISLANDS
17 BENNY’S BUGLE
18 SOLO FLIGHT
19 I GOT RHYTHM (version 1)*
20 I GOT RHYTHM (version 2)*
21 STARDUST *
22 TEA FOR TWO *

* Bonus tracks

Total time: 77:40