Jazz Articles about Banjo Kings

Banjo Kings: Banjo Kings, Volume One

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 1999

Lester Koenig loved the sound of a banjo, and regretted its absence from the modern jazz stage. Fortunately, he was in a position to do something about it. The New Orleans Revival in the ‘Forties brought need for banjos; when groups formed on the West Coast (like Lu Watters, or the Firehouse Five) Koenig recorded them on his Good Time Jazz label. Opportunity knocked in 1951: when Harper Goff left the Five, the replacement was studio musician Dick Roberts – ...