Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Lu Watters & the Yerba Buena Jazz Band is the name of the Traditional Jazz revival band founded by Lu Watters. Notable members include singer and banjoist Clancy Hayes ; clarinetist Bob Helm; trumpeter Bob Scobey; trombonist Turk Murphy; tubist/bassist Dick Lammi; and Watters himself.
In the late 1930s, cornetist Lu Watters was playing commercial dance gigs in the San Francisco area. Not satisfied with this music, he assembled a group of musicians to play traditional jazz music. His rehearsal spot was the Big Bear Lodge on Redwood Road in the Oakland hills.Discography
The band made several recordings for Jazz Man Records, which were issued in the UK on Melodisc Records, some which are:
- Melodisc 1123 Original Jelly Roll Blues / At a Georgia Camp Meeting
- Melodisc 1124 Daddy Do /Millenberg Joys
- Melodisc 1125 Muskrat Ramble / Smokey Mokes
- Melodisc 1126 Tiger Rag/Come Back Sweet Papa
- Melodisc 1148 Creole Belles / Chattanooga Stomp
- Melodisc 1149 Working Man Blues / Big Bear Stomp
- Melodisc 1150 Copenhagen / Jazzin' Babies Blues
- Melodisc 1158 1919 Rag / Ostrich Walk
- Melodisc 1170 South / Richard M. Jones Blues
- Melodisc 1180 Friendless Blues / I'm Goin' Huntin'
