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MY FRIEND CHARLIE CHRISTIAN
By LES PAUL as told to ANDY SCHWARTZ
The year was 1938. I was living in New York and playing on the NBC radio network, five nights a week. It was the coast-to-coast broadcast of “The Chesterfield Hour” with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians, featuring the Les Paul Trio. So three times a […]

I never knew him. I never saw him play. Only within the past few years did I become aware of his existence. But James Black has cast a spell on me.
I am haunted by the unexpected shifts in his compositions and arrangements, the restless creativity of his unquiet spirit, the unfinished business of hit-and-run sessions […]