ISBN 1480361143. 9x12 inches.
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. This collection of 45 songs includes:
After You've Gone
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't She Sweet
Alabama Jubilee
Alabamy Bound
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Avalon
That's A Plenty
At Sundown
Baby Face
St. Louis Blues
Summertime
Basin Street Blues
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand)
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Blue Skies
Honeysuckle Rose
Breezin' Along With The Breeze
Bye Bye Blackbird
Bye Bye Blues
California, Here I Come
Chinatown, My Chinatown
Mississippi Mud
'Deed I Do
Dinah
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
I Got Rhythm
Georgia on My Mind
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
Ja-Da
The Jazz-Me Blues
Lazy River
My Baby Just Cares For Me
My Blue Heaven
My Honey's Loving Arms
Original Dixieland One-step
Royal Garden Blues
Some of These Days
Somebody Stole My Gal
STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Sweet Georgia Brown
'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
