Greetings everyone. I kind of stumbled on this accidentally: I am guitar player steeped in blues buts that not all I do. I recently discovered this musician Elmer Snowden He recorded two albums with Lonnie Johnson around 1960 Snowden was a guitar player but he is known primarily as a banjo player. He was a member of a group The Harlem Banjo Quintet
http://www.redhotjazz.com/elmer.html He has one record with Cliff Jackson http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000000Z6T/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

What I am trying to say, there is(was) a school of banjo in which a 4 string Tenor Banjo was used in Jazz. Unlike Blue Grass or Old Time Music, it was played with a plectrum and it was featured a lot in early New Orleans music where a an um amplified guitar could not be heard over a brass band.
Often times the banjo would solo on tunes like "Laura" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" I am told that this style of banjo playing is all but dead and there are no current performers Is that true?
I found this man on Youtube Eddy Davis doing Laura

I found this unknown duo doing "Sweet Georgia Brown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SPaA206_Ng&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gh4pyecsBE