Lu Watters
He was a young jazz trumpeter in love with a style of music that reached its creative peak while he was still in diapers. Wynton Marsalis? No...Lu Watters, one of the leading New Orleans revivalists of the 1940s. Watters was a die-hard fan of King Oliver's Original Creole Jazz Band (which included a young Louis Armstrong); his Yerba Buena Jazz Band featured the two-trumpet lineup made famous by Oliver. Watters and the other white revivalists believed in the primacy of early jazz -- specifically, the music made in New Orleans by black musicians during the '10s and '20s -- eschewing subsequent stylistic developments like swing and bop. The Yerba Buena Jazz Band was founded in 1939 and Watters drew its members from a large swing group he led in Oakland, CA. His intent was to resuscitate the Oliver style, which he did with a great deal of success. Although Dixieland revivalists were a dime a dozen in the '40s, the Yerba Buena Jazz Band stood apart by virtue of its authenticity and helped spread the revival worldwide. The band began playing the Dawn Club in San Francisco in 1939 and the gig continued until Watters was drafted in 1942. The band regrouped after the war and returned to the Dawn Club, where they attained great popularity. In 1947, they moved to Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito, where they remained until Watters broke up the band in 1950. On its most influential recordings, made in the mid-'40s, the group included Watters on first trumpet, Bob Scobey on second trumpet, Harry Mordecai on banjo, Bob Helm on clarinet, Turk Murphy on trombone, Bill Dart on drums, Wally Rose on piano, and Dick Lammi on tuba. Scobey and Murphy went on to lead their own popular Dixieland outfits. Besides playing tunes from the trad repertoire, Watters also supplied new arrangements and compositions. Watters retired from playing music full-time in 1957; he studied geology and later became a chef. He began playing again in 1963, performing with Turk Murphy's band at anti-nuclear rallies in Northern California. He made one last record before retiring.
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Discografia
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The Ultimate Jazz Archive 8 - Jacks Hit The Road (1 Of 4)
Jazz - Lançado por Carinco AG em 18/02/2007
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Blues Over Bodega
Jazz - Lançado por Good Time Jazz em 01/01/1964
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Vintage Jazz No. 116 - EP: Doctor Jazz
Jazz - Lançado por Vintage Music em 01/03/1956
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New Orleans Jazz Men, Vol. 1
Jazz - Lançado por Ap Music em 15/08/2011
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Jack Hits The Road
Jazz - Lançado por History em 01/09/2009
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Live at Hambone Kelly's: 1950
Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Jazz - Lançado por GHB em 18/02/2015
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Vintage Jazz No. 75 - EP: Lu Watters Jazz
Jazz - Lançado por Vintage Music em 03/01/1950
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Doing The Hambone
Jazz - Lançado por Editione Jazz IT em 05/02/2019
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Sunset Cafe Stomp
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzify em 13/03/2019
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Dawn Club Favourites
Jazz - Lançado por CoolNote em 01/01/2000
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Live at Hambone Kelly's, Vol. 3
Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Jazz - Lançado por GHB em 17/02/2015
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Jazz Figures / Lu Watters (1942)
Jazz - Lançado por Collector Records Greece em 01/10/2011
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Live at Hambone Kelly's: 1950, Vol. 2
Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Jazz - Lançado por GHB em 16/12/2014
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The San Francisco Style
Jazz - Lançado por CoolNote em 01/01/2000
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Days That Got Away
Jazz - Lançado por nagel heyer records em 26/06/2018
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Welcome to My World
Jazz - Lançado por Jazz2Jazz em 02/02/2017
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