Edition: Paperback Book, Banjo

Description: 122 Pages

Tenor and plectrum banjos are key ingredients of Dixieland jazz music. The bright percussive chord strums and flashy tremolo picking glissandos help define the genre. In the 1920s, when Dixieland jazz was at its zenith, the four-string banjo was the fretted instrument of choice because it could easily be heard above the simultaneous improv of the band's clarinet, cornet, saxophone, and trombone frontline. (Electric guitars were not invented until a decade later.)

The chord voicings in these expertly crafted arrangements were selected so that the melody notes were always within reach to enable the user to play chord/melody style if desired. The lead sheets consist of lyrics and two sets of chord diagrams – tenor and plectrum – positioned throughout the arrangements. 

After You've Gone (from ONE MO' TIME)
Ain't Misbehavin' (from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN')
Ain't She Sweet
Alabama Jubilee
Alabamy Bound (from THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (from ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND)
At Sundown
Avalon
Baby Face
Basin Street Blues
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand)
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Blue Skies (from BETSY)
Breezin' Along With The Breeze
Bye Bye Blackbird (from PETE KELLY'S BLUES)
Bye Bye Blues
California, Here I Come
Chinatown, My Chinatown
'Deed I Do
Dinah (from THE BIG BROADCAST)
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Georgia On My Mind
Honeysuckle Rose (from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN')
I Got Rhythm (from AN AMERICAN IN PARIS)
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
Ja-Da
The Jazz-Me Blues
Lazy River (from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES)
Mississippi Mud
My Baby Just Cares For Me (from WHOOPEE!)
My Blue Heaven
My Honey's Loving Arms
Original Dixieland One-Step
Royal Garden Blues
St. Louis Blues (from BIRTH OF THE BLUES)
Some Of These Days
Somebody Stole My Gal
Stompin' At The Savoy
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Summertime (from PORGY AND BESS(R))
Sweet Georgia Brown
That's A Plenty
'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Yes Sir, That's My Baby