Check out this tiny thing! It is a Beansprout 5-string banjo uke. And this is the old tune Sunflower Dance

Todo Buenos Aires was selected for the Collector's CD in the November/December issue of Global Rhythm Magazine. Here is what they had to say about it:

"You might not think of the banjo as an improvisational instrument, but Jake Schepps dispels all such preconceptions from the opening strains of this Astor Piazzolla classic- it's a whole new take on nuevo tango, with Schepps's Expedition Quartet providing able support."

This CD, which one may readily consider as both within and apart from the extraordinarily satisfying newgrass/prog-grass wave, is eyebrow-raisingly—indeed shockingly—good. Jake Schepps plays the 5-string banjo, turning in a marvelous performance both in the rhythm section and as a lead player, but the guy's taste in collaborators may well surpass even his heavily finessed compositional and executory skills.

I am fortunate enough to have recently acquired a late 30's Style 12 top tension Gibson Banjo. The 1937 Gibson catalog stated that this style of banjo was "the alarm clock that is going to wake up new possibilities in banjo playing." It is simply stunning. Thanks to Craig Korth allowing me to be the next care provider for this instrument. I may disappear now on a 6 month honeymoon.

The band has formally changed our name from Jake Schepps and Expedition to The Expedition Quartet. Otherwise the same musical adventures with the same musical adventurers.