For the rest of us, we get to delve deep into the Goodman band's treasure trove with "Flying Home," "Rose Room," "Memories of You," "AC-DC Current" - with a killer Lionel Hampton vibes solo, as well as Christian's fat-shaped chords that sound downright funky - "Gone With What Wind," and more masters with those slippery solos and lilting clarinets. Chronologically laid out, the notes are exhaustive enough to include take numbers for jazz historians to argue about. The single-disc ventures are merely shadows, not even photographs or snaps of the massive wealth of musicality that this collaboration between these two men, and the various bands and orchestras they were involved in. What all of this compiling proves is one thing certainly: all single-disc collections cannot begin to do justice to the legend and methyl that surrounds Christian's genius. The tracks include the well-known master takes, all 70 of them, as well as 17 never before released alternates and 28 cuts that have only been issued on European or Japanese compilations. There are 98 tracks spread over four CDs, all of which have been remastered from original sources - the sound is nothing short of breathtaking. It's true that he did, but only in the context of the Goodman band. While in essence, that's all there really is, various dodgy compilations have been made advertising Christian playing with Lester Young or Lionel Hampton. For another, they concentrate on only one thing here: documenting Christian's seminal tenure with Benny Goodman's various bands from 1939-1941. For starters, Columbia goes a long way to setting the record straight that Charlie Christian was not the first electric guitarist or the first jazz guitarist or the first electric guitarist in jazz. First, a few myths get cleared up by the very existence of this box, which goes far beyond the original Columbia compilations with the same name.
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