Vinyl records

Charlie Christian vinyl records

4 albums with 94 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Charles Henry Christian. US guitar player Born July 29, 1916 in Bonham, Texas, USA Died March 2, 1942 at Seaview Hospital, Staten Island NY, USA. Career began with occasional gigs as a bass player in combos around Oklahoma in the early years of the Depression. He spent more than a year with pianist 's sextet, which played in Casper, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota. Early inspiration for Christian came from who arrived with to perform a season at the Ritz Ballroom in 1931. The Ritz was a white ballroom, and the black players had to be content to do their jamming after hours in Slaughter's Hall on East 2nd Street - or "Deep Second" as it was called.