The Blues Banjo: The styles: Traditional jazz

Traditional jazz





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Banjo pictureThe traditional jazz of the 1920s and 1930s was extremely blues-influenced. The most common banjo was the loud-voiced tenor, but other types was used as well, in partiular the guitar-banjo and occasionally the plectrum banjo.

Some of the masters of that style:

Bassett, Rip
Carr, Mancy
Cyr, Johnny St.
Johnson, Bill
McKendrick, Mike
Scott, Bud

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