Nearly everything you need to know about Charlie Christian can be learned from the compilation album Charlie Christian – The Genius of the Electric Guitar. Released on Columbia Records in 1987 ...

Charlie Christian: The Genius Of The Electric Guitar album review by Jim Santella, published on September 1, 2002. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Charlie Christian was born in Dallas in 1919 before his family resettled in Oklahoma. The Christians were poor, even by the low standards for a Black family of that era. Charlie was deeply ...