[Dixielandjazz] Guitarists & Banjoists Count in Storyville

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Found my Al Rose authored, "Storyville, New Orleans", a book I found on  
Amazon and really enjoy owning.  Anyhow Appendix F p. 204 is "A directory  of jazz 
musicians who performed in the legally constituted tenderloin district  known 
as Storyville between January 1, 1898 and November 17, 1917.  This  directory 
identifies by name 20 guitarists, 12 banjoists, and 4 who list as  
banjo/guitar.  Just to give you an example, Johnnie St. Cyr is listed as  "bj,g".  The 
name just below his, Willie Santiage lists "g,bj".
 
The list does of course list all names with the instrument played.  I  was 
just identifying the above because someone was recently raising the question  of 
how much banjo compared to guitar in early jazz.
Ginny