[DOC] [TLE] Charlie Christian - Wikipedia [PAR] Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian (July 29, 1916  March 2, 1942) was an 
American swing and jazz guitarist. Christian was an important early performer on 
the electric guitar and a key .... was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of 
Fame. In 1989, he was one of the first inductees into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of 
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the electric guitar resulted in a liberating of the instrument, in jazz specifically ... 
Interestingly, this coincided with the first known experiments of amplified "electric" 
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Christian's first chorus. ... His rock-steady pulse became one of the hallmarks of 
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bridged the gap into amplified guitar playing was Charlie Christian (1916-1942). 
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One of the major stylistic influences on Christian, perhaps as early as 1929 and 
more ... relegated to serving as a rhythm instrument, a weaker version of the 
banjo. ... amplifiedat first mechanically, then electronicallyshowed some 
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an American jazz guitarist and an innovator in the field of electric guitar. ... and 
Charlie, by this time playing a real instrument, was the group's featured guitarist. 
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Question: Charlie Christian, 1916-1942, was one of the first to electrically amplify this instrument
Answer: a guitar