THE “TWO DAVES” AND THEIR COLLEAGUES ARE BACK MAY 19TH IN ANNUAL APPEARANCE OF

“holotradband”

May 2013 Volume 38, Number 05

By Rod Belcher

The May deadline for registration to Jazz Camp is approaching. I

have three students registered at this point. If any of you have been thinking about a student you know wanting to attend, please do three things:1) Have them check out the website www.campheebiejeebies.us 2) Give me a call and I can answer any questions you might have 425-890-6605.3) Mail me the completed registration form (snail mail) 5226 236th PL SE Issaquah, WA 98029.

As I have said so many times, Jazz Camp is an unforgettable experience for the students who have the opportunity to attend. One more note – do any of you have Jazz stories or experiences you would like to share? Please send them on in to me! That’s it for this month, see you for holotradband on May 19th.  Cheers, Judy

Notes From the PrezIf you missed last month’s Jazz Sunday, it was amazing, everyone

had a great time and not to worry, they’ll be back next year in April. We have a couple of deadlines ahead, the Schulz Fund and

registrations for Jazz Camp. I want to thank each of you who have sent pledges to Carol for the payment of the band’s travel expenses. If everyone fulfills their pledge, WE WILL MEET OUR GOAL. So, if you’d like to, please send your money to Carol now so she/we will actually see the travel money in the bank, that makes planning the travel easier when we have the funds in hand to cover the expenses. And a big Thank You again for helping bring Bob and his Frisco Jazz Band to Seattle in September. We have also made arrangements for them to play Saturday evening at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, so make your plans for two days of great Jazz.

The seven-piece jazz combo that leader-cornetist Dave Holo calls “holotradband” was organized back around the turn of the century and developed a solid following of fans through long residency as the Tuesday night house band at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant in Seattle’s Pioneer Square.

A second ‘Dave’ – trombonist-vocalist Loomis – has formed the strong brass foundation of the group with Holo, which has survived nicely the occasional changes of individual instrumentalists. The Daves’ influence and top-quality professionalism has prevailed to make the band a favorite of ear-conscious jazz devotees.

Their bandstand mates are all seasoned veterans of the music scene in Seattle and elsewhere. Tasty drummer Mike Daugherty has been a member from the start, as has pianist Alex Guilbert. Clarinet-sax artist Bruce Hall is the much-appreciated reed voice of the group. String bassist Jeff Norwood gives a different sound from the typical tuba rhythm heard in many Dixieland ensembles.

The most recently acquired sideman, guitarist Ron Peters, is another pro whose talent suits any style of jazz combo.

“Any style” also is an apt fit for holotradband’s musical output – everything from early-day trad to swing and renditions of pop standards, all combining both taste and high energy.

WHERE: Ballard Elks Lodge, 6411 Seaview Ave. NW, Seattle.WHEN: 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Sunday, May 19th.ADMISSION: $12 PSTJS members; $15 non-members. Pay only at door.FURTHER INFO: Carol Rippey, 425-776-5072. Or website: www.pstjs.org. Plenty of free parking, great view. Coffee, snacks, and other beverages available.

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BELLINGHAM TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETY 1st Saturday 2 - 5 pm VFW Hall 625 N. State StMay 5, Mark Kelly, Saltwater OctetJune 6, Ain’t No Heaven Seven FOGGY BOTTOM JAZZ BANDMay 8, 12 - 1pm , Kitsap Senior Seminar, Kiana Lodge, Poulsbo

GLENN CRYTZER AND HIS SYNCOPATORS1st Sunday and 3rd Wednesday of the Month 9:30 pm -12:30 am Century Ballroom 915 East Pine Seattle, WA, 206-324-7263

NEW ORLEANS QUINTET Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, New Orleans Restaurant, 114 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA 206-622-2563

GREATER OLYMPIA DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY 2nd Sunday 1:00 – 4:30 PM Elks Club 1818 4th Ave, Olympia, WAMay 5 Lakewood Community Jazz Band (1st Sunday due to Mothers Day)June 9 Uptown Lowdown Lite

PEARL DJANGOMay 5 7pm, Bake’s Place Bellevue, 155 108th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004: phone: (425) 454-2776May 10, 7pm, Crossroads Shopping Center, 15600 NE 8th Street, Bellevue, WAMay 15, 7:30pm, Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island, WA 98282; Phone: (360) 387-0222May 18, 7pm, Under the Red Umbrella, 1502 Rucker Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 425.252.9193May 22, 7pm, Paschal Winery, For reservations call 541-488-3869 or email info@siskiyouinstitute.com 1122 Suncrest Road, Talent, Oregon May 25-26 , Sacramento Jazz Festival 6 performances - www.sacjazz.com/

UPTOWN LOWDOWN JAZZ BANDMay 19, 12:30pm, Portland Jazz Society Milwaukee, OR Elks

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UPCOMING EVENTSElks Lodge, Ballard, 6411 Seaview Ave N.W., Seattle May 19 holotradbandJun 16 New Orleans Quintet with Ron Rustad

PRESIDENT: Judy Levy jazzdancer2@msn.com 425-890-6605VICE PRESIDENT: George Swinford grs-pms@comcast.net 425-869-2780SECRETARY: Cilla Trush paultrush@yahoo.com 206-363-9174TREASURER: Gloria Kristovich gkristo@live.com 425-776-7816

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Joanne Hargrave shorejo1@comcast.net 206-550-4664Leroy Johnson: moldyfig@hotmail.com 206-772-4378Jan Lemmon djlemmon@msn.com 425-776-9763Edmund Lewin: 360-297-6633Gary Lydum: glydumup@hotmail.com 206-719-3955 George Oelrich: goelrich@comcast.net 360-793-0836 Carol Rippey: trianglejazz@comcast.net 425-776-5072Jack Temp 425-242-0683

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LU WATTERS CENTENNIAL AND THE ANNIVERSARY OF A

HISTORIC RECORDING SESSION

Trumpeter Lu Watters was born in Santa Cruz, California, on December 19, 1911, and began playing the trumpet/cornet at a very early age. In fact, this writer recalls reading that young Lucius was regarded as the most promising bugler at the military academy he attended.

At a very early age, Lu began playing professionally; in fact, he made his first recording in 1929, the year he turned 18, in San Francisco with Jack Danford’s “Ben Franklin Hotel Orchestra”. Later, he played with the band of Carroll Lofner, which included a drummer named Phil Harris. In 1938, Lu formed his own big band which played for a couple of years at Sweets’ Ballroom in Oakland, and which included several musicians who later were to be colleagues of his in the famous Yerba Buena Jazz Band: Bob Scobey on the second trumpet; Bob Helm-clarinet and tenor sax; Squire Girsback-string bass;Russ Bennett or Clancy Hayes-guitar (Clancy also sometimes played banjo, an instrument which was NOT in favor at that time!); and Gordon “Gramps” Edwards-drums. The sound of this twelve-piece band was not unlike that of the Bob Crosby band, according to the CD we have of this ensemble; they mixed in such jazz standards as “Panama” and “Tiger Rag” with such popular tunes as “Stardust” and “Talk Of the Town”.

Then, in 1940, Lu, tiring of the big band sound, got together with some like-minded colleagues, such as Helm, trombonist Melvin “Turk” Murphy, pianist Paul Lingle, and banjoist Pat Patton, to jam on the rooftop of the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco. This lasted only a short time, then Lu decided to put together a band which would feature the power and drive of two cornets, and so the Yerba Buena (the original name of San Francisco) Jazz Band was born. The original line-up of the band was as follows: Watters and Byron Berry-cornets; Murphy-trombone; Helm-clarinet; Forrest Browne-piano; Benny Johnson-banjo; Dick Lammi-tuba; and Gordon Edwards-drums. Between early 1940 and late 1941 there were a number of personnel changes; for example, Murphy left the band for a while, then came back, and Lammi was in and out. As Clancy Hayes, who replaced Benny Johnson, was not always available, due to being in demand for radio work, Lu hired Russ Bennett for what might be called “banjo insurance”.

By December,1941, the band was playing at the Dawn Club, located on Annie Street, an alley back of the well-known Palace Hotel. Dave Stuart, head of the newly-formed Jazz Man Record Company, hired the band to cut eight sides for his label, which they did on December 19, which was, incidentally, Lu’s 30th birthday. The personnel of the band by this time was: Watters and Scobey-cornets; Murphy-trombone; Ellis Horne-clarinet; Wally Rose-piano; Hayes and Bennett-banjos; Lammi-tuba; and Bill Dart-drums. At first, Stuart wanted all eight sides to be by the full band, but Lu talked him into including a piano solo by Rose with rhythm accompaniment of George Botsford’s “Black and White Rag”. It turns out that that piece paid for that recording session! (This may have been the most historic recording session since the ones by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in January and February, 1917)

The band was called back to record 14 more sides for Jazz Man in March, 1942, this time with Squire Girsback replacing Lammi on tuba. By then, our nation was at war, and the band members expected to go into military service. Lu wanted the band to go into the Navy as a unit, but when they went to enlist, only he and Turk were taken at the time, though nearly all band members wound up in uniform. Wartime units of the “YBJB” existed briefly, but it wasn’t until 1946, when World War II was over, that the band was re-assembled and played at the Dawn Club. The famous “brass triad” of Watters, Scobey and Murphy, remained intact, with Rose, Lammi, and Dart back; Helm, the original clarinetist, returned to the band, with Harry Mordecai taking over the banjo chair. The Yerba Buena band recorded 36 sides for the “West Coast “ record label, which Lu may have set up, of which eight selections were ragtime piano solos by Wally Rose, with rhythm accompaniment, and some new material was introduced, specifically five compositions by Watters (written while he was aboard the ship “Antigua”), and two by Murphy.

In 1947, the members of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band left the Dawn Club and started their own place, Hambone Kelly’s, across the bay in the city of Albany. Several band members lived in rooms behind the bandstand, and many contributed their non-musical talents: Lu was the chef, Helm the bartender, Turk served as electrician, plumber, and general handy man, and Lammi was the projectionist, who showed movies during breaks.

By 1949, Murphy and Scobey went out on their own, and while Turk stayed with the style of ragtime-oriented jazz with its New Orleans roots, which has become known as the “West Coast” or “San Francisco” style, Scobey went off in a different direction. Mordecai left the band for health reasons, but the Yerba Buena band carried on, now consisting of Watters, Helm, Rose, Lammi, Dart, Hayes back in on banjo and vocals, sometimes joined by Pat Patton on the other banjo, and trombonist Don Noakes (who was replaced by Warren Smith of the Bob Crosby and Pete Daily bands, but ONLY for their Mercury recordings, so Helm once told this writer.) Lu was out of action trumpet-wise for a while, so played the washboard in a quintet with Helm playing the only wind instrument, Rose at the piano, Lammi switching to string bass, and Hayes on banjo and vocals. By the end of 1950, the “YBJB” was a five-man band consisting of Watters (back on trumpet), Helm, Jerry Stanton at the piano, replacing Wally Rose, Lammi, and Dart, though occasionally, when his relatively-newly-formed band wasn’t getting much work, Turk would sit in with this now trombone-less band, occasionally joined by his trumpeter, Don Kinch.

Lu retired at the end of 1950, sold his trumpet, and worked as a chef, also pursuing his interest in geology, which manifested itself in a hobby of making jewelry from the stones that he found on the nearby beach.

In 1963, he briefly came out of retirement to join in the (ultimately successful) protest against PG&E’s plan to build a nuclear reactor on the San Andreas Fault near Bodega Bay, and not only sat in with Turk’s band at Earthquake McGoon’s, but recorded an LP with a band consisting of himself, Bob Mielke on trombone (Turk had come down with a cold and couldn’t play), Bob Helm, Wally Rose, banjoist Monte Ballou, tuba-ist Bob Short, and drummer Thad Vandon, with vocals by Barbara Dane.

Your writer and some other diehard trad-jazz fans had the pleasure of visiting with Lu Watters at his home in Cotati, north of San Francisco, where he spent his last years. Lu Watters died in 1989, at the age of 77, after a battle with cancer.

He deserves much credit for reviving an art form considered dead, but bringing his own touch to it. The same may be said of his colleagues, most notably Turk Murphy, Bob Helm, Bob Scobey, Clancy Hayes, and Wally Rose. The first recordings by the Yerba Buena Jazz Band are responsible for the return to active playing of such New Orleans jazz greats as Willie “Bunk” Johnson, Edward “Kid” Ory, and Thomas “Papa Mutt” Carey.

By Doug Parker

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AIN’T NO HEAVEN SEVEN Leader: Terry Rogersterryrrogers@comcast.net 206-465-6601COAL CREEK JAZZ BAND Leader: Judy Logen, 425-641-1692 Bookings: judy@coalcreekjazzband.comCOMBO DE LUXE Bookings: Candace Brownwww.combodeluxe.net jazzstrings@comcast.net 253-752-6525CORNUCOPIA CONCERT BAND Leader: Allan Rustadwww.comband.org 425-744-4575DUKES OF DABOB Bookings: Mark Holman, 360-779-6357, seaclar7@embarqmail.com. DUWAMISH JAZZ BAND Bookings: Carol Johnstoncarolanjo@yahoo.com 206-932-7632FIRST THURSDAY BAND Leader: Ray Skjelbred,Rayskjelbred@gmail.com 206-420-8535FOGGY BOTTOM JAZZ BAND Leader: Bruce Cosacchi360-638-2074GRAND DOMINION JAZZ BAND Bookings: Bob Pellandbobpelland@gdjb.com 360-387-2500 holotradband Leader: Dave Holo email: dave@daveholo.comwww.holotradband.com HOT CLUB SANDWICH Contact: James Schneiderwww.hotclubsandwich.com 206-561-1137 HUME STREET PRESERVATION JAZZ BANDBookings: Karla West 406-862-3814

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