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Banjo Band, also known as Banjo Band Ivana Mládka is a Czech country band formed in 1966 and led by singer and comedian Ivan Mládek. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are best known both at home and internationally for the song " Jožin z bažin ".
Ivan Mládek was born in Prague, where he spent most of his childhood. [1] His father, a lawyer and painter, taught him to paint, but he preferred music and started his now-famous Banjo Band. The Banjo Band first performed in 1966. In 1968 Mládek emigrated to France to pursue his music career in Paris.
The shorter-necked, tenor banjo, with 17 ("short scale") or 19 frets, is also typically played with a plectrum. It became a popular instrument after about 1910. Early models used for melodic picking typically had 17 frets on the neck and a scale length of 19 1 ⁄ 2 to 21 1 ⁄ 2 inches.
It is considered the band's best-known song, both at home and internationally. In January 2008, it became popular in Poland, winning several radio hit lists, [1] and the band recorded a Polish version on their album Jozin z bazin w Polsce, released the same year. [2] It was also popular in Hungary, Austria, and Russia. [3]
The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The few musicians who tried to get by on tenor banjo and guitar banjo had little to inform their attempts at emulating what they heard on the radio, until Pete Seeger's 1964 Prague concert. Banjoist Marko Čermak was able to build the first Czech five-string banjo from photographs taken at this event.
George Washington Gregory (February 15, 1867 – May 2, 1902 [1] [2]) was a banjo player, playing in the classic banjo style. [3] A composer, he arranged classical music for the 5-string banjo. [ 3 ] He taught the banjo as a music teacher and wrote a musical method, Practical Fingering for the Banjo , originally published in serial. [ 4 ]
William Hundley Emerson, Jr. (January 22, 1938 – August 21, 2021) was an American five-string banjo player known for being one of the founding members of the original The Country Gentlemen and Emerson & Waldron and considered one of the finest bluegrass banjo players in music history.