Solo Flight

Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 29, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1939
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vintage Jazz
• ASIN: B000006JF0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Flying Home #1

2. Rose Room

3. Memories of You

4. AC-DC Current #1

5. Dinah

6. Till Tom Special

7. Gone With "What" Wind

8. The Sheik of Araby

9. Soft Winds

10. Six Appeal (My Daddy Rocks Me)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Swing to Bop

2. Stompin' at the Savoy

3. Up on Teddy's Hill

4. Stardust, Pt. 1

5. Kerouac

6. Guy's Got to Go

7. Swing to Bop

8. Stompin' at the Savoy

9. Up on Teddy's Hill

10. Star Dust #1

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2008 release containing some 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. As a bonus, the complete 1939 jam session by the Jerry Jerome Quartet, showcasing extended solos by Christian. Includes musical assistance from Cootie Williams, Lionel Hampton, Georgie Auld, Jerry Jerome, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Johnny Guarnieri, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Pettiford, Artie Bernstein, Nick Fatool, Gene Krupa and many others. Recorded in Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York, from 1939 to 1941. 22 tracks. Definitive. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.