Mudcat Café message #1911208

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Thread #97159 Message #1911208
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Dec-06 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: Is Trad Jazz part of the Folk Scene
Subject: RE: Is Trad Jazz part of the Folk Scene

A banjo is a banjo. They come in different tunings and so forth and get played differently, but so do fish and you wouldn't call a sardine a bird just because it's not a shark.

And a banjo is a key instrument in early kinds of jazz, then or now.