C&A:

On this Catalina Casino broadcast of Honeysuckle Rose, Charlie Christian begins his solo with the same line he uses for his intros on AC/DC Current albeit with different timing.  This solo also has pedal tones with descending notes—at mm 5 thru 7—but quite different from the other versions of the tune.  There’s an uncommon four-note figure at bar 8 that begins a common CC lick on the next two measures.  The isolated figure at bar 16 is also unusual.

On the bridge, the two lines on mm 17-19 and 20-22 are very closely related to the one at mm 8-10.  Charles begins the second one with a five-fret ascending slide (the second note is not struck), anticipating the actual chord change by a full measure.   oth lines end with similar triplets—not usual for CC who likes to vary his improvisations.  At bar 23 there’s a descending finger-drag (the second note is struck) to start the phrase that closes the bridge.  He finishes the solo with well-known phrases that begin with an unexpected four-fret swoop at the beginning of bar 29.

Although this an incomplete recording of very poor quality, Charles’ solo is intact.  It is the least known of the five versions of this tune—it wasn’t publicly released until 1993 by France’s Media7 on their Masters of Jazz label and has only appeared on two other CDs since then.