[Dixielandjazz] Why guitar, not banjo?/Tubas, too
Robert S. Ringwald
robert at ringwald.com
Tue Dec 26 18:34:44 PST 2006
Charles Suhor wrote:
(snip)
my preferences
> run the opposite of Ginny's, below. Banjo and tuba are a hard sell for
> me because the setting is so often brassy and razzmatazzy.
(snip)
If you wanna hear some really swinging tuba work, listen to some of Bob
Scobey's recordings from the 1950s. He often had a bass & tuba with either
Rich Madison or Bob Short playing the tuba.
He also had Clancy Hayes on a 6-string banjo. A little different then the
normal 2-beat tuba banjo sound.
--Bob Ringwald
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