Casey, tenor banjo player Richard Curran and second fiddler Denis Murphy. By the next year, Killoran was performing on a weekly radio program sponsored by the Pride of Erin Ballrooms, located at the corner of Bedford and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn. At the Pride of Erin, and later at ...
The Best Banjo Players in the World Vote Matthew Fisher Age: 79 Matthew Fisher may refer to: Matthew Fisher (cricketer) (born 1997), English cricketer Matthew Fisher (musician) (born 1946), English musician, songwriter and producer Matthew P. A. Fisher (born 1960), America...
GuitarBanjo: JohnnySt.Cyr,EddieLang,EddieCondon Piano: JamesP.Johnson,FateMarable,JellyRollMorton,Willie“TheLion”Smith,Fats Waller,LilHardinArmstrong,MeadeLuxLewis,PinetopSmith,Earl“Fatha”Hines Drums: BabyDodds,ZuttySingelton,SonnyGreer,DaveTough,GeorgeWettling,BenPollock ...
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated p...
The Best Banjo Players in the World Vote Charles Münch Dec. at 77 (1891-1968) Charles Munch (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl mynʃ]; born Charles Münch; 26 September 1891 – 6 November 1968) was an Alsacian, German-born French symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his ...
An innovative and technically proficient banjo player, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Also ranks #2 on The Greatest Banjo Players of All Time Also ranks #2 on The Best Banjo Players in the World Also ranks #5 on The ...
He was part of the Austin High School Gang in Chicago and the older brother of Jimmy McPartland.Dick McPartland played banjo and guitar. When he worked with Red McKenzie, he occupied the seat vacated by guitarist Eddie Lang. Near the end of the 1920s, he recorded with Irving Mills a...
In addition to bass, Gordon is an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano and guitar. He is also a filmmaker (Rising Low, Outside Out) and author (Mike's Corner). He has released five solo studio albums. Birthplace: USA, Massachusetts, Sudbury Ricky ...
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Sonny Osborne (born October 29, 1937 in Hyden, Kentucky) is a bluegrass singer and five-string banjo player. A master of the style developed by Earl Scruggs, called the "Scruggs style", he is best known for his collaboration with his brother Bobby Osborne as the Osborne Brothers. Birthplace...