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An expanded version of the groundbreaking racially integrated Benny Goodman Quartet, chiefly notable for incorporating pioneering electric guitarist Charlie Christian. This made it the first group in American jazz to give a guitar solo instrument space since the very different-sounding and much quieter handful of 1920s groups to use the acoustic instrument. Christian's progressive tendencies also meant the group foreshadowed bebop.

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Members

Fletcher Henderson
since 1935 Piano
Teddy Wilson
since 1935 Piano
Lionel Hampton
since 1936 lib/muslib/membership_type_219
Count Basie
since 1940 Piano
Georgie Auld
since 1940 lib/muslib/membership_type_36
Cootie Williams
since 1940 lib/muslib/membership_type_47
Charlie Christian
since 1939 till 1941 Guitar
Peggy Lee
Lead vocal
Benny Goodman
lib/muslib/membership_type_1094, lib/muslib/membership_type_23
Gene Krupa
Drum set
Artie Bernstein
Double bass

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