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"Blanton also took part in a few of the informal jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse in New York that contributed to the genesis of the bop style." [ 3 ] It has been said that electric guitarist Charlie Christian was also present for some of those sessions, and the two were friends.
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.He was among the first electric guitarists and was a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz.
The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington band); Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link from the swing era to bebop.
Ellington put Blanton front-and-center on the bandstand nightly, unheard of for a bassist at the time, together with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, thus this era of Ellington's ensemble is referred to the Blanton–Webster band. Bassist Jimmy Blanton was only with the Ellington orchestra for two years, leaving in 1941 due to tuberculosis, and ...
The house band was the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, [3] which featured Sweets Edison and Clark Terry, and later Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian, and also Jimmy Forrest. [2] The club declined after the early 1950s. Later the building hosted various bars.
2 – Charlie Christian, American guitarist (born 1916). ... 30 – Jimmy Blanton, American upright bassist (born 1918). Births. John McLaughlin Blue Note 2016.
"Blues in B" (B. Goodman) - Charlie Christian Jammers - 1:43 "Waitin' for Benny" (B. Goodman) - Charlie Christian Jammers - 5:06. The Jammers were actually members of the Benny Goodman Sextet; the above 2 tracks were warm-up recordings made by the Sextet on March 13, 1941 as they waited for the tardy bandleader.
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