question: What is the name of this American swing and jazz guitarist who was preceded by George Barnes in playing the first electric guitar?
answer: Charlie Christian
context: Title: Electric guitar
  Passage: An electric guitar is a fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.  The vibration occurs when a guitarist strums, plucks, fingerpicks, or taps the strings.  It is sensed by a pickup, most commonly by a magnetic pickup that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction.  The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to a loudspeaker, which makes a sound loud enough to hear.  The output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add "color" to the sound or change the sound.  Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and "overdrive", with the growling sound of the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric guitar as it is used in blues and rock music.
  Title: George Van Eps
  Passage: George Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) (often called the Father of the Seven-String Guitar) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.
  Title: Dorlis
  Passage: Dorlis (born February 23, 1982) is the stage name for a Japanese musician from Okayama, Okayama Prefecture.  She started out in classical guitar, but at about age 17 became a street musician and dropped out of high school.  In time, she became a jazz and swing musician.  Her music has at times been deemed nostalgic because of its Swing Revival style.  This makes her work somewhat analogous to American swing revivalists like The Brian Setzer Orchestra or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, though stylistically it is more similar to 1920s and 1930s swing jazz such as Django Reinhardt's.  She is primarily a jazz singer, though also is a guitarist.  She is signed with Avex Group's Rhythm Zone sublabel.  She used to be connected with Victor Entertainment.
  Title: Kevin R. Gallagher
  Passage: Kevin R. Gallagher is a guitarist who plays both the electric guitar and the classical guitar.  As a classical guitarist, he has received top honors at some of the most prestigious guitar competitions in the world, including the 1993 Guitar Foundation of America, the 1994 American String Teachers Association, the 1993 Artists International Competition, and 1997 Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition in Spain.  As an electric guitarist, he is known for transcribing violin music for electric guitar and for founding the avant-rock ensemble Electric Kompany.  He has also produced, in cooperation with John Zorn, a music festival titled "Full Force: The New Rock Complexity" that showcases bands that have combined styles such as classical, rock, jazz, and metal.  He has produced a CD for Naxos Records titled "Guitar Recital - Music from the Renaissance and Baroque," a duo CD with Antigoni Goni titled "Evocacion," and an EP featuring his work on solo electric guitar and with Electric Kompany.
  Title: Kay Musical Instrument Company
  Passage: Kay Musical Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of the United States, in operation since the 1930s until the 1960s.  It was established in 1931 at Chicago, Illinois by Henry Kay Kuhrmeyer, from the assets of the former Stromberg-Voisinet, which was founded as Groeschel Mandolin Company in 1890.  Kay offered their first electric guitar in 1936—five years after the Rickenbacker "Frying pan", and the same year as the Gibson ES-150.  Nonetheless, Kay is considered an "electric guitar pioneer" because Kuhrmeyer bought their past company, Stromberg-Voisinet, and produced the first commercial electric guitar, the "Stromberg Electro", in 1928.
  Title: Bob Dunn (musician)
  Passage: Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn (February 5, 1908 - May 27, 1971) was an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist.  Although much influenced by influential, key Hawaiian lap steel guitar player Sol Hoʻopiʻi, Dunn played in his own original bluesy style and was the first to record an electric guitar, preceding other country & western guitarists following him shortly.  He preceded by over three years George Barnes (with Big Bill Broonzy in 1938), Leonard Ware and, slightly later, Eddie Durham.
  Title: Supro Ozark 1560 S
  Passage: The Supro Ozark 1560 S is a vintage electric guitar.  It has 10 mm gauge strings and employs a single pickup near the bridge.  It was recreated by Roy Dalvin in December, 1990.  The guitar is most famous for being the first electric guitar Jimi Hendrix owned.  His white Supro Ozark was from his father, who purchased it from Myers Music shop in Seattle in 1958.
  Title: Charlie Christian
  Passage: Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
  Title: George Barnes (musician)
  Passage: George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921 – September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by five years.  He made the first commercial recording of an electric guitar on March 1, 1938, in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy.
  Title: Michael Nicolella
  Passage: Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963 in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer.  Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic approach to repertoire, including the incorporation of electric guitar into his concert programs and recordings.  Nicolella's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present.  His most recent recording is his own arrangement of the complete cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach; while his past four recordings focused on contemporary music, including his own compositions, alongside those of Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze and Steve Reich.  He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece "Transit" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound.  His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto ("Guitar Concerto"), and an electric guitar concerto ("Ten Years Passed").  His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, "The Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight", was premiered by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexandra Picard in April 2012.  He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of groups and artists including: violinist Gil Shaham, rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes, broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, jazz singer Johnaye Kendrick, classical music comedians Igudesman and Joo and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony.  Nicolella is a graduate of Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.  He is currently based in Seattle, where he serves on the music faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.  He is married to the painter Ann Gale.
citations: George Barnes (musician) Charlie Christian