Eddie Durham

Eddie Durham (born August 19, 1906, San Marcos, Texas, USA - died March 6, 1987, New York City, New York, USA) was an American guitarist, trombonist, composer and arranger. He played with and the orchestras of , and . He was one of the first musicians to adopt the electric guitar (just invented in 1931) after using instruments with a resonator. He experimented with proto-amplifiers as early as 1929, for example…