Banjo Hangout Top 100 Jazz Songs

my arrangement and adaptation of a Merle Travis guitar instrumental to banjo...it&#39s in Dm and shifts to Dmaj for the bridge...

A Cab Calloway hit from the 1930&#39s, that our 7 piece jazz band often played on a Sunday arvo&#39 at the &#39&#39Story Bridge&#39&#39 pub ... a very popular watering hole, here on the banks of the Brisbane river. \Key F, tuning CGBD ..... hope you enjoy this one on plectrum banjo.. ..... Don.

traditional blues / jazz

Les Feuilles Mortes

jazz classic

That&#39s another intercontinental job with Don on plectrum banjo & me on tenor banjo: each one recorded his part at home, Don in Australia, myself in Italy. We enjoyed a lot!

Originally in a 1926 Rodgers and Hart musical, Betsy, and recorded by 50 or more singers and bands afterwards.

Supporting &#39&#39Eddy Davis&#39 &#39&#39 4St. forum topic, &#39&#39Modern Jazz Videos.&#39&#39 This 1932 memorable jazz &#39&#39Duke&#39&#39 classic played on plectrum banjo. Key Ab, tuning CGBD. - - thanks for tunin&#39 in. - - Don.

Jazz song from an old broadway play

Another banjo collaboration, with yours truly plectrum banjo, and Marco tenor banjo. Hope you all can join us, [as we imagine ourselves] playin&#39 this beaut tune, on the banks of the lazy Mississipi, down in New Orleans. Don.

5-string over Realband backing track, gypsy jazz stylie.

This is my &#34coming out&#34 recording, as my first upload. In support of the tab I posted, it&#39s my transcription of Django&#39s guitar part to banjo. 1st two rounds are Djangos notes, then a couple of rounds of me trying to be gypsyish, then Django again. Recorded through laptop mic onto a Realband backing track.

Supporting Eddy Davis&#39 4 string forum topic on&#39&#39 Some more Jelly Roll Morton Tunes.&#39&#39

I think this is technically a samba.

&#39&#39Lance Maquire,&#39&#39 a good tenor banjo playin&#39 old mate of mine, had a copy of this tune, played by &#39&#39Harry.&#39 I&#39d never heard it before, and liked it a lot, so I&#39m posting it here, so you can have a listen. 21/5/14 I&#39m sorry for misleading you! but this is &#39&#39Lance Maquire&#39&#39 playin&#39 this, and not &#39&#39Harry Reser.&#39&#39 Take a bow &#39&#39Lance,&#39&#39 well played.

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

Me and the Americana Ensemble class at Chicago&#39s Old Town School of Folk Music giving St. James Infirmary a go (Oct 2013). I&#39m practicing soloing and rolls. It&#39s 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&#39s jazz standard.

This is an old &#34Fats&#34 Waller song that I found on Bela&#39s 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 &#34Showboat&#34, 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&#39t 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.

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

Caravan with accordionist Sara

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

I have been listening to his music for half my life - finally got around to recording one!

My triple banjo version of the ol&#39 jazz standard from the early thirties. Rhythm banjo, brushed banjo, and a lead banjo. All mixed on Audition with only some reverb and volume adjustments.

A tune associated with the pioneers of bebop, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Written over the changes to the 20&#39s pop song &#39Whispering&#39.

Heres my 6 banjo version. I matched the tempo and the arrangement as closely as I could. But my jazzy solo in the middle is my own..good or bad,haha. I snuck in a hook riff from a 007 movie for laughs. This has rhythm banjo, two brushed banjos,banjo ornaments,banjo solo and bass banjo. I hope you like it.

Heres my banjo take on the Christmas favorite. I've always loved Vince Guaraldi's version that was featured in Charlie Browns Christmas cartoon. This one has 5 banjos and I used a Keyboard cleaning brush, on the banjo head, to get the brushed sounds from the original recording,haha. Add a bass banjo track with the tuning dropped 3 whole steps and you get a pretty nice sounding bass string,haha. This was a fun project .

This is a tune that Dave Grusin did in the 1980&#39s ... for a movie called &#34Falling in Love&#34 with DeNiro and Streep. I always liked it, so .. here &#39tis. It&#39s all 5 string banjo and electric bass with the exception of a shaker that shows up in the first section for a few bars. All other rhythm is played on the banjo head.

My swingy, bluesy version of the old standby. I guess its now &#34rest YE Funky Bluesy Dudes&#34 Lol.

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo

Bruce Miner - Plectrum Banjo