# Grand Slam guitar solo > Charlie Christian's guitar solo on Grand Slam by Benny Goodman Sextet (1941). From the album Grand Slam (single). Played on a Gibson ES-250. Canonical URL: Benny Goodman Sextet, 1941, from *Grand Slam (single)*. Solo by *Charlie Christian*. A late sextet side where Christian's playing is at its most assured and modern. His phrases lean toward the harmonic ideas bebop would soon make standard. Grand Slam by Benny Goodman Sextet is #16 in our ranking of the best Charlie Christian guitar solos. The solo is played by Charlie Christian and the song was released in 1941. ## In our lists - [The Best Charlie Christian Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/charlie-christian-guitar-solos/) — #16 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Grand Slam? Charlie Christian played the solo on Benny Goodman Sextet's Grand Slam (1941). ### What guitar was used on the Grand Slam solo? A gibson es-250, according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)