[Dixielandjazz] Banjo Sacrilege - Was Bird/Diz/Dick Hyman

[Stephen G Barbone]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 7:02 PM, john petters wrote:

> Stephen G Barbone wrote:
>> Here is a you tube link of Hot House with that "stride and   
>> ragftime specialist" Dick Hyman on piano along with Dizzy  
>> Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Charlie Smith or is it Max Roach?,on  
>> drums. Turn the sound way up at the end and you may hear Hyman  
>> resolving Dizzy's unresolved ending.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvCDCOGzGc
> Hey Steve, I kept waiting for the banjo to come in!


Hey John:

Your wish is my command. Go to the below site and then click on "Donna  
Lee" which is a bop tune written over the chords of "Back Home in  
Indiana". Interested Listmates can hum the melody of Indiana over this  
tune to hear that.

http://www.bopjo.com/music.html

Once there,  click on "Donna Lee", or "Impressions", an Mp3 will come  
on and you'll hear real be-bop banjo by Tom Slavicek. He is playing a  
5 string banjo, his own make, to which he added a 6th string tuned to  
a low A.

If you scroll down this site, you can hear all kinds of "progressive  
banjo", and some really neat stuff, like Thelonious Monk's "Straight  
No Chaser". There is a lot of interesting banjo picking on this site.  
Reminds me of the time I played "Confirmation" in a clarinet - banjo - 
tuba trio during a stock pick-up truck race at a county fair. Did it  
as a joke but the audience loved it. Steve DiBonaventura was the  
banjoist and many listmates and banjo pickers know him.

And you thought this was going to be a banjo joke. <grin>

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband