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Banjo Kings, Volume One

By Banjo Kings

Label: Good Time Jazz
Released: 1999

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Banjo Kings: Banjo Kings, Volume One

Read "Banjo Kings, Volume One" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

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 ...


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