Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Jazz Songs

My Imaginary Friends

Buck Evans (2023) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:15:00 CST

A 1930's-style melody featuring Bob Barta on vocal & multiple string instruments (including banjo, guitars, ukuleles, & mandocello) with Peter Kontrimas on string bass.

St Louis Blues

Dave5236 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:12:00 CST

My father with Gibson Tenor, and I. Excuse the quality. About 1995. My father was 80, and me 55. Now I am 84 and dad is in glory.

Bill Bailey

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:14:00 CST

Ain't Misbehaving

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:13:00 CST

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:12:00 CST

Mood Indigo

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:11:00 CST

Davenport Blues

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:10:00 CST

After You've Gone

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:10:00 CST

The Mooche

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:08:00 CST

Sweet Lorraine

banjopaolo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:07:00 CST

Hello Dolly

mmuussiiccaall — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:44:00 CST

Harlem Nocturne banjo

mmuussiiccaall — Sat, 6 Jan 2024 15:59:00 CST

Limehouse blues

Douglas Furber Philip Braham — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:09:00 CST

Tenor guitar and plectrum banjo

Baubles, Bangles and Beads

Borodin, Wright and Forrest — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:21:00 CST

A great jazz standard from the 1953 musical "Kismet" Che chords are weird on this one!

When It's Sleepy Time Down South

When It's Sleepy Time Down South.mp3 — Fri, 6 Oct 2023 14:42:00 CST

Shibuya Blues

banjola1 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:16:00 CST

Jazz Banjola

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

Frederick Loewe and Alan J. Lerner — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:47:00 CST

A song from the 1956 musical "My fair Lady"

Hot Lips

Henry Busse — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:13:00 CST

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME

Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, — Sat, 2 Jul 2022 15:02:00 CST

EMBRACEABLE YOU

GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:45:00 CST

short and sweet..also in key of G,..which is rare for C tunning banjo

Stars fell on Alabama

FRANK PERKINS AND MITCHELL PARISH — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 12:43:00 CST

Pink Panther Theme (REDO)

Henry Mancini — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:53:00 CST

Trolley song

Hugh Martin / Ralph Blane — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:05:00 CST

Plectrum banjo..logic pro

Eb7 Phrase

banjola1 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:37:00 CST

From the Jazz Banjo Sketchbook

Sweet Georgia Brown

Ben Bernia and Macio Pinkard — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:59:00 CST

Walk Don't Run

Johnny Smith — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:53:00 CST

The World is Waiting for The Sunrise

Ernest Seitz — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:46:00 CST

Love song and wish could do it some justice...Dubbed with me playing Banjo/Mando

Danny Boy

banjola1 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:09:00 CST

Traditional Irish

Merry Go Round of Life

Joe Hisaishi — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:32:00 CST

My guitar version of the theme song from Japanese animated film "Howl's Moving Castle".

It Don't Mean a Thing....

Ellington-Mills — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:49:00 CST

CHEROKEE

RAY NOBLE — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 05:42:00 CST

TENOR GUITAR (CGDA) drums sampled from an Art Tatum recording Guitar and bass

Limehouse Blues

Braham/Furber — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:13:00 CST

From 2005..Buck Naked & the Rawhides.. Bass..Pete Johnson..Horns..Richard Bennett Tenor guitar(CGDA ) Plectrum banjo,guitar....Craigwood Buck..Dobro.

Stella By Starlight

Virtor Young — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:00:00 CST

Played on five String Banjola

Polka Dots & Moonbeams

Jimmy Van Heusen & Johnny Burke — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:18:00 CST

I'M COMING VIRGINIA

Donald Heywood and Will Cook — Sat, 1 May 2021 13:05:00 CST

Early jazz song..Bix Beiderbecke and Ethel Waters...Plectrum banjo

STRUTTING WITH SOME BARBECUE

LIL ARMSTRONG — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:02:00 CST

Plectrum for Eddy Davis

SKYLARK

Johnny Mercer / Hoagy Carmichael, — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:24:00 CST

Have you seen a valley green with spring

Tiger Rag

original dixieland jass band — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:10:00 CST

B&D #1..Plectrum banjo

Why try and change me now

Cy Coleman (music) and Joseph McCarthy (lyrics) — Tue, 5 Jan 2021 06:04:00 CST

Me on tenor banjo and all the rest by the talented and versatile @banjopaolo

Blue Smoke ( a Merle Travis early fusion tune)

Merle Travis — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 07:19:00 CST

my arrangement and adaptation of a Merle Travis guitar instrumental to banjo...it's in Dm and shifts to Dmaj for the bridge...

II-V-I Ab 6/9/02

banjola1 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:30:00 CST

A II-V7-IM study in Ab

When Sunny Gets Blue

Marvin Fisher and Jack Segal — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:36:00 CST

A standard jazz hit in 1956 sung by Nat King Cole. This version is performed on 5 string Banjola

Undiminished

jonc — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:48:00 CST

mellow jazz tune with 5 string banjo

Avalon

Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva, Vincent Rose — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:02:00 CST

An attempt at working some clawhammer banjo in to an old jazz setting. Me on banjo, uke and clarinet. Banjo is a Chuck Lee tubaphone, tuned to standard G tuning.

I'll See You In My Dreams

Isham Jones — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:00:00 CST

Here's my attempt to work 5 string clawhammer in to a traditional jazz setting. Me on banjo, guitar and clarinet. Banjo is a Lee tubaphone, tuned to standard G tuning.

Waltz For Johnna

banjola1 — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:46:00 CST

Original Waltz on Five String Banjola

Christmas Song

banjola1 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 04:46:00 CST

G Minor Blues

banjola1 — Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:32:00 CST

Goes to a study of the same name.

Kitchen Blues

banjola1 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:12:00 CST

jazz blues in G

All the Things You Are

Jerome Kern — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 22:10:00 CST

Jazz Standard

Progression1

banjola1 — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:48:00 CST

Turnaround Progression

Hot Lips

guitarbanjoman — Fri, 6 Sep 2019 08:32:00 CST

Jubilee Stomp - Potato Head Jazz Band

Duke Ellington — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:55:00 CST

Included in Potato Head Jazz Band last album "Stompin?Around"

Shaking the Blues Away

Jimmy Mazzy (Irving Berlin) — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:10:00 CST

Don't you leave me here

Jimmy Mazzy (Jelly Roll Morton) — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:15:00 CST

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Dave Hicks — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:10:00 CST

I Can't Get Started

guitarbanjoman — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:47:00 CST

Honey in the Honeycomb

guitarbanjoman — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:40:00 CST

That's My Weakness Now

guitarbanjoman — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:11:00 CST

Recorded live at Nietzsche's, Buffalo NY, Nov. 11, 2018

Tiger Rag

guitarbanjoman — Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:40:00 CST

Tiger Rag

guitarbanjoman — Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:37:00 CST

Rush Hour Train

L50EF15 — Sat, 7 Jul 2018 19:54:00 CST

A tenor banjo improvisation that reminded me of my subway commute. Hence, the title...

FOUR BROTHERS

Jimmy Giuffre — Tue, 29 May 2018 03:08:00 CST

Tone : G # - Philippe Bourgeois : banjo - Downs Thompson : fiddle - Olivier Andres : rhythm guitar, bass -

''Emaline''

Don Lewers — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:35:00 CST

A Cab Calloway hit from the 1930's, that our 7 piece jazz band often played on a Sunday arvo' at the ''Story Bridge'' pub ... a very popular watering hole, here on the banks of the Brisbane river. \Key F, tuning CGBD ..... hope you enjoy this one on plectrum banjo.. ..... Don.

Mack The Knife

mmuussiiccaall — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 06:55:00 CST

Philadelphia Joan

L50EF15 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:49:00 CST

An improvisation dedicated to an old friend of mine. The instrument is Deering Goodtime II 19-fret tenor.

Blue In Green

Bill Evans, Miles Davis — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:40:00 CST

5 string banjo, bongos, and bass playing the Bill Evans/Miles Davis tune Blue In Green

This side of Cool

David Cavage and Doub Pearce — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:54:00 CST

A little tune written by us .. My son Wil Pearce on Drums. David Cavage Tenor Guitar. Doub Pearce Bass, Banjo, Rhythm guitar

Reuben James

Woodie Guthrie - Wildwood Flower — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:50:00 CST

sound comp #2 of 3 banjos

Emily

Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:10:00 CST

Christmas Time Is Here

mmuussiiccaall — Wed, 6 Dec 2017 23:05:00 CST

Christmas Time Is Here

mmuussiiccaall — Wed, 6 Dec 2017 23:03:00 CST

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Dream a little dream

Gus Kahn — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:35:00 CST

A thanksgiving weekend quick record in my daughter’s studio in WA

Teddy Bear's Picnic

John Walter Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 06:37:00 CST

After the marvelous version done by Garcia and Grissman on "Not for Kids Only". 5-string banjo, but just strummed and no fifth string used.

Blue Mira

CGDA — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:24:00 CST

I've recorded this short tune to test a tenor banjo, a six-string banjo and a guitar, after a job on their rusted strings. It seems they sound good now. Somebody could wonder why I didn't replace those strings: the matter is that I've found all my stock of strings widely rusted (Thomastik-Infeld excluded). I'm very disappointed about that, in addition I've found only one set with no rust at a domestic music store . The other 5/6 were rusted!!

Banjo Gang - Bugatti Step

Jaroslav Ježek — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:55:00 CST

''Home'' .... Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band.

Don Lewers — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:25:00 CST

Supporting Dan Eaves 4st. forum topic ''Home''

Home (When Shadows Fall) with accompanyment

Harry and Geoffrey Clarkson, Peter Van Steedon — Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:12:00 CST

Home (When Shadows Fall)

Harry and Geoffrey Clarkson, Peter Van Steedon — Wed, 9 Aug 2017 13:49:00 CST

1930

The Fifth Corner

L50EF15 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:13:00 CST

Another exercise in 5-string flatpick improvisation; trying to play may way into and out of corners, hence the title.

Victory Walk

Joe Avery (?) — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:32:00 CST

Boogie-Woogie/Shuffle in N.O. Revival Style.

Dardenella

turbocoupe2-3 — Wed, 7 Jun 2017 08:28:00 CST

Bourbon Street Parade

Traditional or Paul Barbarin — Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:07:00 CST

Personal old recording on cassette.

'' You Took Advantage Of Me ''

Rodgers and Hart — Mon, 3 Apr 2017 23:24:00 CST

Adding my arrangement of ''You Took Advantage Of Me'' to Eddy Davis' 4 st. forum topic, TOTM of April. Eddy picked a great tune for us all to work on!, hope you enjoy the listen. ..... Don. ps .... I'm just a wee bit late!.

Runnin' A Riff

L50EF15 — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:56:00 CST

Here's an improvisation I intend to approximate on my banjo. I have to let it soak into my ears first, then try to play it on the five-string. I figured it would be interesting to put up a "before" (guitar) and "after" (banjo). It's pseudo Carl Kress/Allan Reuss sounding.

Blue Drag

Josef Myrow / Django Reinhart — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:12:00 CST

St James Infirmary

Traditional / P.D. — Sat, 4 Feb 2017 05:31:00 CST

traditional blues / jazz