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Charlie Christian



Christian, Charlie (1919–42), influential jazz guitarist who pioneered the use of electrically amplified instruments. While playing in the Benny Goodman orchestra (1939–41), Christian joined with Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to create bebop, a modern style of jazz. Christian's career ended when he contracted tuberculosis in 1941.



See also: Jazz.

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