Good Enough to Keep  —  17 March 1941 —  “What’s New? – The Old Gold Show”

        First Page:              Theme

        Second Page:       Guitar Solo

        Third Page:             Riffs & Ride-Out

C&A:

This version is shortened a bit from the studio takes four days earlier:  the tenor sax gets only 16 bars rather than 32, but then the A section after the bridge is increased to 16 bars instead of eight.

Charlie Christian begins his solo with a virtual clone of the first four bars of the first take of the studio session four days prior – the sequence is well worthy of the repeat and, though rather common, it suits the opening theme admirably.  Excellent long runs on the bridge are the crowning highlight here.  The last four bars are a clever variation on what would be a normally familiar, closing statement.

This solo is somehow reminiscent of the Charles of a year and a half earlier – possibly could (also) be due to the Fletcheresque piano accompaniment.

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