Tenor and plectrum banjos are key ingredients of Dixieland jazz music. The bright percussive chord strums and flashy tremolo picking glissandos help define the genre. In the 1920s, when Dixieland jazz was at its zenith, the four-string banjo was the fretted instrument of choice because it could easily be heard above the simultaneous improv of the band's clarinet, cornet, saxophone, and trombone frontline. (Electric guitars were not invented until a decade later.) The chord voicings in these expertly crafted arrangements were selected so that the melody notes were always within reach to enable the user to play chord/melody style if desired. The lead sheets consist of lyrics and two sets of chord diagrams – tenor and plectrum – positioned throughout the arrangements. This collection of 45 songs includes:
- After You've Gone (from ONE MO' TIME)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN')
- Ain't She Sweet
- Alabama Jubilee
- Alabamy Bound (from THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST)
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (from ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND)
- At Sundown
- Avalon
- Baby Face
- Basin Street Blues
- Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand)
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
- Blue Skies (from BETSY)
- Breezin' Along With The Breeze
- Bye Bye Blackbird (from PETE KELLY'S BLUES)
- Bye Bye Blues
- California, Here I Come
- Chinatown, My Chinatown
- 'Deed I Do
- Dinah (from THE BIG BROADCAST)
- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
- Georgia On My Mind
- Honeysuckle Rose (from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN')
- I Got Rhythm (from AN AMERICAN IN PARIS)
- In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
- Ja-Da
- The Jazz-Me Blues
- Lazy River (from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES)
- Mississippi Mud
- My Baby Just Cares For Me (from WHOOPEE!)
- My Blue Heaven
- My Honey's Loving Arms
- Original Dixieland One-Step
- Royal Garden Blues
- St. Louis Blues (from BIRTH OF THE BLUES)
- Some Of These Days
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue
- Summertime (from PORGY AND BESS(R))
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- That's A Plenty
- 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
- The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby
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