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Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band · 1941 · Jazz Man 3

Context

Composition by Abe Holzmann recorded on December 19-20, 1941, in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Jazz Band's first session for Jazz Man Records. Founded by Lu Watters in 1939 to revive King Oliver's New Orleans style, the band was described as "the first real revivalist band in America." It is credited with launching the traditional jazz revival.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Traditional revival. Among the origins and influences of Traditional revival: New Orleans jazz.

Sources

• EN: Jazz Man Records
• EN: Yerba Buena Jazz Band
• EN: Lu Watters

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