On Thursday, December 19, 1939, the Benny Goodman Sextet appeared on a radio broadcast from New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, including "Honeysuckle Rose," with a guitar solo from Charlie Christian.
The Benny Goodman Sextet:
Benny Goodman clarinet
Lionel Hampton vibraphone
Artie Bernstein string bass
Johnny Guarnieri piano
Nick Fatool drums
and the Godfather of the Electric Guitar, Charlie Christian.
"Honeysuckle Rose" is an interesting example of the "swing to bop" phenomenon -- because in different versions, it's both swing and bop. To my knowledge, this radio broadcast hasn't been released on record or on CD, but the Goodman bands...well, Goodman was known as the King of Swing for a reason. Charlie Christian, while playing for the Goodman orchestra and sextet, definitely played swing jazz, but he also participated in after hours sessions with musicians who became known as the founders of bebop (Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke among them) -- and some of those sessions are available on CD.
So is "Honeysuckle Rose" the jumping-off point for "Up on Teddy's Hill," from the CD I linked to, above? Just askin'.
(Some of the information in this post was gleaned from Leo Valdes's web site Solo Flight: The Charlie Christian Web Site -- a fine resource from right here in El Paso, Texas.)