[Dixielandjazz] Why guitar and not banjo?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Makes sense Bob, as does what Steve brought up about the Minstrel 
image, having worked with Black Musicians most of my career I know 
first hand that many of them still shy away from Dixieland Music 
because of that ( at least perceived in their minds ) image, as well as 
the fact that so many of  modern day Black musicians shun playing the 
Blues too.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins   aka Uncle Tom  by my close Black friends. :))


-----Original Message-----
From: cellblk7 at comcast.net
To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Why guitar and not banjo?

   Merry...you know, Listmates!
>From the git-go I thought the early bands used banjos and brass 
basses/bass
saxes/sarrusaphones because they could be heard, not like acoustic 
string
basses and guitars. Then when it was learned that you could amplify 
guitars
and string basses,  banjos and tubas went almost away...I guess I was 
wrong?
Warmest regards,
Bob Romans,
1617 Lakeshore Drive,
Lodi, Calif., 95242
PH 209-747-1148
www.cellblockseven2002.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 11:58 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Why guitar and not banjo?


> Dan Hardie <darnhard at ozemail.com.au> wrote
>
>> Hi Bob,
>> Louis Lince seems to have answered your question about the Bolden 
Band.
>> The photo Louis refers to  is on my Loudest Trumpet  web page - the
>> right way round! Most jazz Bands in New Orleans appear to have  used
>> the guitar until the 1920's, when the banjo became popular. It is
>> strange because historically the banjo was the instrument of the 
slaves
>> - even the street bands in New Orleans employed guitarists like Brock
>> Mumford, not much evidence of banjos.
>
> Perhaps they used guitar because ALL of the early Jazz Bands were
> primarily
> Dance Bands? Just a guess on my part, but to me it seems that guitar 
would
> be better in a Dance Band than Banjo. Then too, banjo was associated 
with
> Minstrels and maybe the Dance/Jazz Bands didn't particularly want 
that
> sort
> of an image?
>
> The Buddy Bolden photo that Dan's book shows correctly, is also shown
> correctly in the Ken Burns book on Jazz.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
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