Harry Reser Tenor Banjoist plays Tiger Rag

[@Corrie121]

Harry Reser was something else on the banjo. Few could match virtuosity. Thanks for sharing a great posting.

[@edwardgoldsmith8011]

I would like to say that anyone who is a classical banjo musician or a real serious musician.harry reser was truely the most greatest of them all.being a concert violinist and a tenor player myself my hat is off to this God given master for his precise forward key to the door of banjo playing .Harry rest in peice and the world is different without you.

[@eyezofblue1204]

“Plus Harry Reser is my distant cousin!”

[@oxdrift76]

By the early thirties, Reser had introduced a rythym guitar into the band including the Cliquot Club Eskimos group. We (my family) still have pictures of the band in their eskimo suits. My dad was the guitarist and his final instrument before he left the band was a Gibson L-5 he and Reser picked-up the the factory while playing in Michigan. That was 1934. An L-5 cost $275.00 at the time; a small fortune. Enjoy the music

[@seanmoyses]

By the way, Harry does this tune on his Gibson Plectrum banjo, Harry played both tenor and plectrum..wonderfully of course!

[@KawhackitaRag]

HOLY ---- he makes it look so easy!

[@azzx96]

Oh MY GOD how did you find an orignal clip of the cliquot club eskimos!!!!!

[@HarborGuy]

We used to say "Hold that Tiger" to this at my grandmothers as kid and play it on the old Victrola....different band tho.......

[@bluedanbob]

This guy puts all the best bluegrass pickers to shame.

[@seanmoyses]

Great Jack, how much better can it get? Sean

[@pomeroy40144]

Fantastic.

[@Tojazzer]

Incredible work... and then the mice at 1:38 wonderful :)

[@edwardgoldsmith8011]

The greatest

[@dgoa9759]

素晴らしい、テクニックですね👍

[@Mutamaniac]

Man oh man that guy was 'frantic'. The name Jack Convery rings a bell with me from sometime in the past. Did you happen to know Peter Thomas Stanton?

[@MrSwifts31]

@diarmaidok You are certainly right about the mice! Even though the video is rather blurred I can see the,but thanks for pointing them out,without your comment I would have missed them.LOL

[@MrMKH2010]

I believe that Harry Reser played a Plectrum most of the time, because he probably could not play "Heebee Jeebees" on a Tenor. Check out Ken Aoki playing "Heebee Jeebees" on his Plectrum.

[@bluedanbob]

You're correct, the tenor and five string are only really similar in that their soundboxes are both heads stretched over a pot, however I was remarking that the sounds of a tenor virtuoso of Reser's level are in my opinion more complex, and, frankly, scarier than the fastest bluegrass picker. In any event, the five string pickers outlasted the tenors :)

[@ordix44]

..no fear, the kittens are on the keys...

[@Bigband78]

@diarmaidok ,I saw that!

[@blondiebanjo007]

very nice, Harry.....nice version....... personally, i am an Eddie Peabody fan...... ya gotta hear Eddie rip the strings off this song..... but I enjoyed Harry's version.....however, Eddie Peabody, "King of the Banjo" !!!!!!!!!!!

[@richmeister1]

Is that a big bottle of Cliquot Club?

[@andrewbarrett1537]

PRIVATE DETECTIVE You know it!

[@jazzbanjobanjoman]

"Harry Reser tenor banjoist plays"... A plectrum banjo - in this clip...

[@sanfranphono]

Hello, I have added as a video response Harry Reser's Syncopators playing a hot 1926 Number: Someone is Losin' Susan Thanks for posting this. Cheers

[@oxdrift76]

yago2br. You're not reading carefully.

[@boojum2222]

Reser's banjo work is extrordinary but the arrangement as a whole loses the melody of "Tiger Rag." The accompanying pics are a treat. effjay

[@andrewbarrett1537]

FRANK JACOBS well... it is a jazz version. If you listen to most other records of the tune from around 1930, it's the same idea... just jamming. Of course the Louis Armstrong record is famous, but even piano rolls like Lloyd Smith's roll for Capitol in Chicago are outstanding improvisations.