第一把電子吉他

The first electric guitar

1932: Number 7 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz music

• John Fordham
• The Guardian, Friday 17 June 2011
  
  

Guitarist Charlie Christian circa 1940 in New York. Photograph: Frank Driggs/Getty Images
大約在1940年紐約一名吉他彈奏者Charlie Christian。照片：Frank Driggs/蓋蒂圖片社

In 1932, a musician called Gage Brewer began performing on one of the first electrically amplified Hawaiian guitars. The idea soon guitarists rendered almost inaudible in big swing bands, but six years passed before a jazz guitarist, George Barnes, first recorded on a Spanish instrument with magnetic pick-ups in 1938. The next year 23-year-old guitarist Charlie Christian joined Benny Goodman's hit-making big band playing the ground-breaking Gibson ES-150. Christian's stunning solos were phrased like sax lines, making the guitar a front-line jazz instrument. In 1940, Christian joined the coterie that created bebop, but he died of TB aged only 25.

1932年，一位名叫Gage Brewer音樂家開始表演第一把電子增強的夏威夷吉他。這個想法很快讓吉他手在大搖擺樂團幾乎消失無聲，直到6年過去之後一位爵士吉他手，喬治- 巴恩斯，在1938年時第一次在西班牙錄製唱機磁帶後才又恢復。第二年一位23歲的吉他手Charlie Christian加入Benny Goodman's的hit-making大樂隊演奏開創性的吉布森ES -150。 Christian的驚人獨奏措辭像薩克斯管線，使吉他成為爵士樂的第一線樂器。Christian在1940年，加入了the coterie創立了bebop，但他在25歲死於結核病。