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Somehow I played like Charlie Christian’s grandfather, so even older. (Harry Pepl)
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- Somehow I played like Charlie Christian’s grandfather, so even older. (Harry Pepl)
- Authors
- Harry Pepl
- Date
- 2005
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- On the concert with Benny Goodman; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-14), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 61
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- DE
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- Harry Pepl · On the concert with Benny Goodman; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-14), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 61
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- https://www.harrypepl.com/en/how-to-cite/zitat/40/
Somehow I played like Charlie Christian’s grandfather, so even older. Self-ironic, on the 1980 concerts with Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing”: for the swing repertoire he deliberately played through a small amplifier without reverb, while at the time he was otherwise making very modern music of his own with heavy reverb, delay and effects. Charlie Christian was Goodman’s guitarist around 1940 and a pioneer of the electric jazz guitar