Solo Flight (reduction)
Solo Flight (reduction)
$60
Around the age 24, Charlie Christian, not content with playing rhythm on every tune, wrote himself a soloing feature that has since become the guitar standard of the swing era. Solo Flight has lots of great wild punches from the band but it’s all secondary to the guitar improvisation that dances around them. The chord changes have some familiar structures, but mixed in are slightly more modern chords with flashes of early bebop. Note: This is one of the only Ellington 7-piece charts here that requires a guitar. Big band version also available.
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