[Dixielandjazz] Banjo Styles

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

That's incorrect about Bud Scott switching to guitar - he was always
primarily a guitarist - all of the New Oreleans guys of his generation were
- Johnny St. Cyr, Willie Santiago, Lorenzo Staultz etc.
The banjo only came in the late 1910's and went out of fashion again in the
early 1930's. 

He played guitar with Noone aswell as banjo, with a few breaks on "Oh,
Sister Ain't that Hot" and a slow blues solo on "Blues My Naughty Sweeetie
Gave to me".
He used guitar only on the Jelly Roll Morton sessions in 1927.

He was in poor health in the late '40's and died in 1949.



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	BOBOBANJOB at aol.com [SMTP:BOBOBANJOB at aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:47 PM
> To:	dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject:	Re: [Dixielandjazz] Banjo Styles
> 
> Echoing Brian Towers comments, Bud Scott on banjo with Jimmy Noone's
> Chigago 
> band
> of the late '20s, provides a clean driving rhythm. It sounds like he's
> using 
> plectrum tuning,
> but I can't say for sure...but he creates an incisive mellow tone on the 
> instrument.
> 
> Later, in the '50s, when he played with Kid Ory's band he switched to
> guitar, 
> with Joe Garland on bass.
> I guess to keep up with changing times.
> 
> Bob Sann
>     
> 
> 
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