The Noosa Heads Jazz Club proudly presents
November - Tribute Concert Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Our November Concert on Thursday 28th November at the Majestic Theatre, Pomona will celebrate the Lu Watters era of jazz and have you tapping your toes in time to the music. Members tickets are $25 and Guest tickets $30 plus booking fee.
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About The Tribute Concert
Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band, founded in 1939, was the primary force behind the USA West Coast Great Revival of Traditional Jazz. Lu discovered a love of 1920s hot jazz as played by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and other pioneering jazz musicians. The Dawn Club, The Big Bear Lodge and Hambone Kelly’s were the hottest Traditional Jazz haunts in San Francisco through the 1940s and 50s, with concerts only interrupted by the war years.
To celebrate the Bands impact, Ian Smith trumpet, John Braben trumpet, Chris Schnack trombone, Paul Williams saxophone & clarinet, Bernice Haydock piano, Glen Flenady banjo, Richard Stevens sousaphone and Rod Andrew drums, will present a concert of the hit tunes made famous by Lu Watters and his band at the height of their popularity.
Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Lu Watters became a professional musician as a teenager when he earned $50 for successfully writing an arrangement of the tune ‘Alice Blue Gown’. Bing Crosby made Lu his first official musical arranger. In the 1940s Lu took Jazz back almost twenty years by re-arranging and playing compositions of King Oliver & Jelly Roll Morton. He developed his band’s charts in the late 1930s and created a repertoire that has had a remarkable lasting influence on musicians ever since.
Lu wrote some of the most iconic traditional Jazz tunes including Emperor Norton’s Hunch, Big Bear Stomp, Antigua Blues and many others. These compositions became standard tunes in the repertoire of the bands that followed. Lu had disciples in Australia where Graeme Bell’s Australian Jazzmen and Tom Baker’s San Francisco Jazz Band and Steve Waddell’s Creole Bells were early converts to the two beat rhythms.
Enjoy the hit tunes of Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band with the two-trumpet front line driving his traditional Jazz revival arrangements.
Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band are still revered by revivalist bands and fans across the world.
Date
Thursday 28 November 2024 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (UTC+10)Location
Majestic Theatre
3 Factory Street, Pomona Queensland 4568
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