Yerba Buena Jazz Band
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Lu Watters & the Yerba Buena Jazz Band is the name of the Dixieland
revival band founded by Lu Watters
. Notable members include singer and banjoist Clancy Hayes
(from 1938 to 1940); clarinetist Bob Helm
; trumpeter Bob Scobey
; trombonist Turk Murphy
; tubist/bassist Dick Lammi
; and Watters himself. The band broke up in 1950.
Dixieland
Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...
revival band founded by Lu Watters
Lu Watters
Lucius "Lu" Watters was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the "West Coast revival" of Dixieland music...
. Notable members include singer and banjoist Clancy Hayes
Clancy Hayes
Clarence Leonard Hayes was a jazz vocalist, banjoist and guitarist born November 14, 1908 in Caney, Kansas. He lived in Parsons, Kansas for a short time, and the town is the subject of his song "The Parsons, Kansas Blues": . He worked always as a professional musician, turning up in San Francisco...
(from 1938 to 1940); clarinetist Bob Helm
Bob Helm
Bob Helm was a jazz clarinetist who is known for playing with Lu Watters and Turk Murphy. Helm is noted for being a member of the Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the 1940's. He is most associated with Dixieland music. He led at least one band, which was Bob Helm's Riverside Roustabouts...
; trumpeter Bob Scobey
Bob Scobey
Bob Scobey was an American jazz musician born in Tucumcari, New Mexico.He began his career playing in dance orchestras and nightclubs in the 1930s. In 1938 he worked as second trumpeter for Lu Watters in the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. By 1949 he was leading his own band under the name Bob Scobey's...
; trombonist Turk Murphy
Turk Murphy
Melvin Edward Alton “Turk” Murphy was renowned as a trombonist who played traditional and dixieland jazz in San Francisco....
; tubist/bassist Dick Lammi
Dick Lammi
Dick Lammi was an American jazz tubist and bassist associated with Dixieland jazz.Lammi played violin and banjo early in his career, and played as a banjoist in various groups in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1920s...
; and Watters himself. The band broke up in 1950.