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Jazz banjo players

31 jazz musicians in the atlas play banjo, including Django Reinhardt, Buckethead, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Morse and Bucky Pizzarelli. Open a profile for dates, discography and line-ups.

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of BOPET, where early membranes were made of goat skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by the "African diaspora" and had African antecedents. In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United Kingdom and United States by traveling shows of the highly popular traveling blackface minstrel shows, followed by mass production and mail-order sales, including instructional books. The inexpensive or home-made banjo remained part of rural folk culture, but five-string and four-string banjos also became popular for home parlor music entertainment, college music clubs, and early 20th century jazz bands. By the early 20th century, the banjo was most frequently associated with folk, blues, cowboy music, and country music.

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Django Reinhardt 1910–1953 · Romani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910–1953) Buckethead b. 1969 · American guitarist Tommy Emmanuel b. 1955 · Australian guitarist Steve Morse b. 1954 · American guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli 1926–2020 · American jazz guitarist (1926–2020) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1922–1986 · American saxophonist (1922–1986) Béla Fleck b. 1958 · American banjo player Lonnie Donegan 1931–2002 · Scottish-born skiffle musician (1931–2002) Hank Marvin b. 1941 · English musician; guitarist for the Shadows Lonnie Johnson 1899–1970 · American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and… Eugene Chadbourne b. 1954 · American musician and music critic Eddie Condon 1905–1973 · US musician (1905–1973) Sanseverino b. 1961 · French singer Vernon Reid b. 1958 · American fusion and crossover guitarist (born 1958) Alison Brown b. 1962 · American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer Danny Barker 1909–1994 · American jazz musician (1909–1994) Rodney Jones b. 1956 · American jazz guitarist and bassist, born 30 August 1956… Marty Grosz b. 1930 · American musician Elmer Snowden 1900–1973 · American musician (1900-1973) Alvino Rey 1908–2004 · American swing era musician (1908–2004) Roy Smeck 1900–1994 · American virtuoso guitarist, banjoist and ukulele player… Bill Tapia 1908–2011 · American musician (1908–2011) Stian Carstensen b. 1971 · Norwegian musician Louis Nelson Delisle 1885–1949 · American musician (1885-1949) Johnny St. Cyr 1890–1966 · American musician Eric Weissberg 1939–2020 · American musician (1939–2020) Bao Vang 1934–2016 · Vietnamese prince Dave Barbour 1912–1965 · American jazz guitarist (1912–1965) Nappy Lamare 1907–1988 · American musician (1907-1988) Huey Long 1904–2009 · American musician (1904–2009) Clarence Holiday 1895–1937 · American musician