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In the late 193o's and early 40's a group of young Negro jazzmen--notably Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Thelonius Monk, and Max Roach--created a strikingly new kind of music.

Oklahoma, other than the Broadway show of the same name, isn't really thought of as a musical hot spot by most folks, but that would be wrong.

The impact of Sinti gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt is hard to overestimate. He is in the pantheon of early guitar greats with the likes of Robert Johnson, Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang -- and with only two fingers on his fret board hand.

Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with legends like Jack McDuff and Miles Davis.

The world of jazz guitar has long been filled with some of the most storied names in jazz history.

Would you like to learn something about jazz? On Monday, Oct. 19, Lloyd Kaplan, jazz musician and music educator, will present a program called "Three Pioneers of Jazz Guitar" at the Warwick Public Library at 7 p.m. He will discuss Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, all of whom exerted a profound influence on the development of ...

As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson ! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar in jazz history understand that he ...

Buried in an unmarked grave, guitarist Charlie Christian helped break the color barrier in the music industry in the 1930s and 40s along with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet.

I've been thinking about the "Charlie Christian" guitar pickup a lot lately. It's been fetishized by a remarkable number of top-rate guitarists -- and guitarists fetishize their tools more than any group this side of, I dunno, Mac users? [by the way, hello future Google visitors who clicked to this page hoping for an entirely different kind of ...

George Benson is simply one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history, but he is also an amazingly versatile musician, and that frustrates to no end critics who would paint him into a narrow bop box.

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and Metro newspaper.

BORN IN MCKINNEY, TEXAS, IN 1921, Herb Ellis' first influence was the late Charlie Christian - the pioneer of electric jazz guitar.

The UNT College of Music hasn't forgotten Charlie Christian. Jazz fans around the world know the name.

In many ways, jazz guitar was still in its infancy back when Johnny Smith first started making a name for himself.

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman 's arrival in the late 1950s stunned the jazz world, and the biggest shock was his demolition of the chord-progression railroad, on which improvised melody was supposed to run.

By Linda East Brady Standard-Examiner staff lbrady@standard.net SLIDESHOW: Wheelwright's collection AUDIO: Listen to Lynn Wheelwright discuss how he started collecting guitars There are few things more all-American than the electric guitar.

All About Jazz is celebrating Grant Green's birthday today! Grant Green Green was born on June 6, 1931 in St.