[78-L] Reuss was Etri was Christian

[Joe Scott]

According to an article about electric guitar published under Charlie Christian's name, Allan Reuss had already switched to electric as of roughly '38. So did he record around then on electric (rhythm or otherwise) with Mildred Bailey? Jack Teagarden? Someone else?

Joseph Scott
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From: David Weiner
Sent: 12/16/13 01:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Christian question

One of the first - if not the first - guitarist to show the Christian influence was Bus Etri, who played with Charlie Barnet's band from 1937 to his death in 1941. By early 1940, he had switched from acoustic to electric and incorporated a lot of Christian into his playing. Example attached - WANDRIN' BLUES, from March 1940. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aidr-tQ3p0o Dave Weiner On 12/16/13 2:57 PM, "Joe Scott" <joenscott at mail.com> wrote: >The ES-150 hit stores in '36. The greatest virtuosos recording jazz >electric guitar as of about '38-'39 seem to have been Zeke Campbell and >Christian, best I can tell. > >Some of the people who recorded on electric guitar before Christian did >are Campbell, George Barnes, Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Durham, Bill Broonzy >(on a bunch of Sonny Boy Williamson sides including big hits), Bob >Symons, and I think the earliest recordings of Les Paul on the radio too. >Basically, about half of those people played in a similar style to >Christian imo. _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l