{"id":210,"date":"2006-04-21T03:12:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=210"},"modified":"2018-08-23T01:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T05:29:29","slug":"lu-watters%e2%80%99-yerba-buena-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Lu Watters\u2019 Yerba Buena Jazz&nbsp;Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/06-04-21-LISTN-Lu-Watters\u2019-Yerba-Buena-Jazz-Band-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"06-04-21 LISTN Lu Watters\u2019 Yerba Buena Jazz Band pic 1\" width=\"218\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/06-04-21-LISTN-Lu-Watters\u2019-Yerba-Buena-Jazz-Band-pic-1.jpg 449w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/06-04-21-LISTN-Lu-Watters\u2019-Yerba-Buena-Jazz-Band-pic-1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\"><\/a>For\u00adtu\u00adnately, this 1955 record\u00ading on a small Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia label is in good con\u00addi\u00adtion. It pre\u00adserves some of the lit\u00adtle-remem\u00adbered \u201cSan Fran\u00adcisco Sound\u201d of the ear\u00adly 1940s. In a time when the swing and big band sounds dom\u00adi\u00adnated, a minor\u00adity of jazzmen sought to revive the more inti\u00admate sound of Dix\u00adieland. There were three local\u00adizes \u201cschools\u201d of this \u201cback to the basics\u201d move\u00adment: one in New Orleans, anoth\u00ader in Chica\u00adgo, and a third in San Fran\u00adcisco, lead by Lu Wat\u00adters and Turk Mur\u00adphy. The 1941 and 1942 ses\u00adsions on my disc, record\u00aded on Van Ness Avenue in San Fran\u00adcisco, have Lu Wat\u00adters and Bob Scobey on cor\u00adnets, Turk Mur\u00adphy on trom\u00adbone, Ellis Horne on clar\u00adinet, Wal\u00adly Rose on piano, Quire Girs\u00adback on tuba, Bill Dart on drums, and two ban\u00adjo play\u00aders, Cla\u00adcy Hayes and Russ Ben\u00adnett. The inter\u00adplay is between Wat\u00adters, Mur\u00adphy and Horne (whose clar\u00adinet is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly sweet). Wat\u00adters was most influ\u00adenced by King Oliver\u2019s band, with Louis Arm\u00adstrong, in its hey\u00adday, but there are also echoes of W. C. Handy and Jel\u00adly Roll Mor\u00adton. Some of the mate\u00adr\u00adial they played was vir\u00adtu\u00adally anti\u00adquar\u00adian even in 1941: they do an excel\u00adlent, slow-paced ver\u00adsion of the <em>Tiger Rag<\/em>, a piece that can be traced to the French quadrilles of Old New Orleans. The San Fran\u00adcisco sound fea\u00adtured ban\u00adjo and tuba in the rhythm sec\u00adtions, which played in a 2\u2011to-the-bar rhyth\u00admic style. There was a light\u00adheart\u00aded \u201cgood time\u201d feel\u00ading to it, which dis\u00adtin\u00adguishes it from the more plain\u00adtive sound of the New Orleans revival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9672 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/06-04-21-LISTN-Lu-Watters\u2019-Yerba-Buena-Jazz-Band-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"06-04-21 LISTN Lu Watters\u2019 Yerba Buena Jazz Band pic 2\" width=\"418\" height=\"223\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00adtu\u00adnately, this 1955 record\u00ading on a small Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia label is in good con\u00addi\u00adtion. It pre\u00adserves some of the lit\u00ad\u00adtle-remem\u00adbered \u201cSan Fran\u00adcisco Sound\u201d of the ear\u00adly 1940s. In a time when the swing and big band sounds dom\u00adi\u00adnated, a minor\u00adity&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=210\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cu-listening-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}