Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: "Father of Rock and Roll"?

Charlie Christian, where art thou?

This guy is really something.  At least that's what John Hammond, the talent executive who came upon Charlie Christian, must've thought before plying Benny Goodman to include him into his band/orchestra.  Charlie Christian grew up busking and held an impeccable sound that was unmatched, and extraordinary given that the electric was in it's infancy.

Perhaps part of the reason Charlie never ascended on a true solo flight was because of his commitment to Benny, who initially wasn't ready to introduce the sound of the electric guitar, and was probably worried eventually that Charlie's sound might steal the show.

He only lived to 25, and is one of my favorite artists that I wish could have stuck around a little longer to show us some more.  The following improvised jam was done in 1941 while the Sextet was waiting for Benny Goodman to arrive; "Waiting for Benny".  I wouldn't have minded if Benny had taken his time a little more.

The Lively Ones- Surf Rider

Background music.  It's an supplementary detail that I think can affect us more than we notice.  It has been proven that simplified soundwaves can directly influence brainwave activity, and this discovery has spawned a "genre" of binaural beats based on different moods that the tracks are intended to induce under controlled listening conditions.  
I think that this effect goes even further though and that most every song has some layer of simple or complex combination of frequency that affects our mental processing and shifts our feelings based on the output.  Could this be why birds sing or why wolves howl?  

Can we ever really hear silence?  There are various "colors" of noise (including white) that permeate our background (of which 20-20,000 Hz is audible) at any given time, and the 50-60 Hz "mains" or AC hum that is almost ubiquitously generated by electronics has shown impact on neuroprocessing, and why some can use it to sleep 

The effect of "noise" or our response to them will probably gather more attention once it is realized as the reason we shop at one supermarket over another.  It's also the reason that prompted me to start wearing headphones at work once I realized realizing how annoyed I was after being polluted with hate-metal for 8-hour sessions.
 
Anyway, here's a track used by one guy who seems to understand the impact of the right music at the right time, Quentin Tarantino.  This song capped off Pulp Fiction.  There will be more to come on his soundtracks.  

The Lively Ones- Surf Rider

Here is another article that talks about the emission of brainwaves relative to noise.
 and a ugly-looking glossary of brainwave terms

You can even create your own binaural tracks here