Jazz Banjo Radio Preview - Dave Marty and The Banjo Barons

FEATURED JAZZ BANJO RADIO ARTISTS
This month Jazz Banjo Radio and Banjomania Radio will be featuring the recordings of the following artists in addition to a variety of music from the early days of "Jazz Banjo" to the present.
DAVE MARTY Dave started playing the ukulele at the age of thirteen. His father gave him a banjo three years later but it wasn't until he was nineteen that he started to play it seriously. By the end of the 1960s he was working 5 to 6 nights a week around the San Francisco area. In 1970 he began working as a street musician and performed with a group called "The San Francisco Medicine Ball band that featured two other banjo players, Jack Convery and Bram Van Der Meulen as well. In 1980 Dave moved his work to the cruise ships and began playing at "Earthquake Mcgoon's" as Turk Murphy's featured intermission banjo soloist. Over the years he has worked at the "Red Garter" and even at the 1965 "World's Fair." Today Dave can be heard in Corte Madera, CA at Marin Joe's Italian restaurant on Sunday nights.	THE BANJO BARONS They were a collection of studio session pickers during the banjo craze of the 1960s. They would play all styles of music from Hawaiian to Folk to Pop. The group was made up of Carmen Mastren, Al Chernet and Art Ryerson on banjo. The rest of the group was made up of Whitey Mitchell on bass, Ted Sommer on drums, Sanford Gold on piano and Toby Wright on piano. The band was arranged and conducted by Teo Macero. Al Chernet who was also a session guitarist with Buddy Holly. It is also reported that "Smokey" Montgomery also recorded on one of those sessions.
Note: Each radio station carries different selections from the featured artists.