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Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band

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 wo

		Hambone Kelly''s: 1949-1951 Vol 2 Jazz was born in New Orleans over 100 years ago. This jazz, the original jazz, moved north to ... more .. Merry Makers Records Label Catalog No: 31 On Sale $15.95
		Hambone Kelly''s : 1949 - 1951 Vol. 1 Jazz was born in New Orleans over 100 years ago. This jazz, the original jazz, moved north to ... more .. Merry Makers Records Label Catalog No: 30 On Sale $15.95
		Good Time Music: San Francisco Style Californian trumpeter Lu Watters 1911 1990 blew the lustiest and earliest notes of the 40s white ... more .. Asv Living Era Label Catalog No: ASL5550 On Sale $12.95
		Good Time Jazz Story While the jazz history books primarily classify the 1940s and '50s as the era in which bebop ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ4416 On Sale $58.95
		Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings The great New Orleans Revival, which influenced the development of traditional jazz through the ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ4409 On Sale $58.95
		Hambone Kelly''s 1949-50 more .. Merry Makers Records Label Catalog No: MMR10 On Sale $14.95
		Air Shots From the Dawn Club Most of the tracks on this disc feature the Yerba Buena Jazz at its prewar peak, broadcasting ... more .. Merry Makers Records Label Catalog No: MMR16 On Sale $14.95
		Live at Hambone Kelly''s Vol.1 GHB is especially pleased and honored to present this important production featuring the ... more .. G H B Records Label Catalog No: GHB093 On Sale $14.95
		Live at Hambone Kelly''s Vol.2 GHB is especially pleased and honored to present this important production featuring the ... more .. G H B Records Label Catalog No: GHB097 On Sale $14.95
		Live at Hambone Kelly''s Vol.3 more .. G H B Records Label Catalog No: GHB119 On Sale $14.95
		Dawn Club Favorites These records were made by Lu Watters on six successive Mondays in May and early June 1946. To ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12001 On Sale $14.95
		Watters Originals and Ragtime These records were made by Lu Watters on six successive Mondays in May and early June 1946. To ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12002 On Sale $14.95
		Stomps, Etc. and the Blues These records were made by Lu Watters on six successive Mondays in May and early June 1946. To ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12003 On Sale $14.95
		1942 Series The sides in this album were made ar the second session of the Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12007 On Sale $14.95
		Bunk and Lu Included on this historic CD are two rather significant sessions. Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12024 On Sale $14.95
		On the Air The title selections on this LP are long overdue. Taken from a series of broadcasts originating ... more .. Good Time Jazz Records Label Catalog No: GTJ12057 On Sale $14.95
		Vol.1,1937-1943 Ever wonder where and when the traditional jazz revolution started? We think it began to emerge ... more .. San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Label Catalog No: SFTJF105 On Sale $14.95

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