Banjo Hangout Top 100 Jazz Songs

Supporting Eddy Davis' 4 string forum topic on'' Some more Jelly Roll Morton Tunes.''

I think this is technically a samba.

''Lance Maquire,'' a good tenor banjo playin' old mate of mine, had a copy of this tune, played by ''Harry.' I'd never heard it before, and liked it a lot, so I'm posting it here, so you can have a listen. 21/5/14 I'm sorry for misleading you! but this is ''Lance Maquire'' playin' this, and not ''Harry Reser.'' Take a bow ''Lance,'' well played.

Eddie Kebabjian and I playing Autumn Leaves. I play both banjo parts, Eddy plays guitar and bass. There is a little multi tracking here so we could play all the parts ourselves. There is 2 tenor banjos and a bass and guitar with some guitar fills on another track.

Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys is where I learned this.

Me and the Americana Ensemble class at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music giving St. James Infirmary a go (Oct 2013). I'm practicing soloing and rolls. It's a wonderful class full of nice, wickedly talented people. http://www.oldtownschool.org/classes/detail/?courseid=3609

I re-recorded Sleigh Ride at a faster tempo and it turned out much better. Easier to play too...

Version is done on a plectrum banjo for the four string tune of the month for October.

This version is done on a plectrum banjo recorded in garage band with the built in mics on the mac

More gypsy jazz.

Exploring some single string jazz technique with this 1920's jazz standard.

This is an old "Fats" Waller song that I found on Bela's first CD. Uke, banjo, guitar and rhythm track.

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

If Miles Davis can play this.....than so can we. Kevin Chaffee on banjo, Pete Roehling on guitar.

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo Per the request of my first BHO friend, LNEU

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

The iconic song from "Showboat", originally sung by Paul Robeson in the Broadway play and then covered by everyone from Djanjo Reinhardt to Frank Sinatra. (Frank Sinatra???) My version is an homage to both John Jorgenson -who first really turned me on to Jazz- and his then partner in crime Doug Mattocks -who showed me that you could play *anything* on the banjo if you only wanted to badly enough... And this is one of those wonderful tunes where you don't have to play things at high speed or with a lot of bells and whistles to make it sound good: just play the melody and let the music speak for itself. Recorded on my Vega Whyte Laydie in open G tuning.

I just improvised a banjo version of the jazz standard (without fingerpicks to get a mellower sound), and then added electric bass afterwards. It is kind of sloppy, and I mainly don't play jazz on the banjo, but thought I would put it out there anyway. I did record it without click track or any ProTools "fixing" (so maybe that could be a consideration against it being judged too harshly for the sloppyness factor). For some really great jazz banjo (in a traditional bop oriented style), listen to Tom Slavicek. His tunes were posted at Andrew Conde's hangout page, but since that page is non-functioning at present, I've re-posted them on my music page with Tom's permission.