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21-651: In the late 1930s, cornetist Lu Watters was playing commercial dance gigs in the San Francisco area. He went on tour across America with the Carol Lofner big band. While in New Orleans, he became interested in traditional jazz. Back in California, he assembled jam sessions with Bill Dart, Clancy Hayes , Bob Helm , Dick Lammi , Turk Murphy , and Wally Rose to play traditional jazz. His rehearsal spot

42-474: A United States jazz band is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clancy Hayes Clarence Leonard Hayes (November 14, 1908 – March 13, 1972) was an American jazz vocalist and banjo player. His regular banjo was a six string one, which is tuned as a guitar. Hayes was born in Caney, Kansas , on November 14, 1908. As a child, he learned the drums, then switched to guitar and banjo. Hayes

63-563: A label based in Italy, released a CD called San Francisco Style: Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band: Clancy Hays, vocals , containing 20 of the three dozen sides by the band from December 7, 1949 through the last recordings from mid-1950. By December 1949, both Bob Scobey and "Turk" Murphy had left the band. All of the Jazz Man recordings were issued in the UK on Melodisc Records : This article on

84-452: A subsequent lawsuit in late 1952; According to Chilkes, Shalit had tricked him into believing that he owned the rights to material actually owned by other companies. In the early 1950s, Melodisc focused on licensing and releasing American jazz and folk records in the UK and had a production and distribution arrangement with Decca Records . After Chilkes was replaced by Trinidadian Rupert Nurse , who became Melodisc's musical director,

105-601: A “This is Jazz” August 16, 1947 radio broadcast featuring the band. “This is Jazz” was a 1947 nationally broadcast radio series. Fairmont also released seven numbers from this broadcast on one side of an LP. The above are all of the recordings of the band with its original front line of Watters, Scobey, and Murphy. In 1949 and 1950, after Scobey and Murphy had left the band, several recordings were made at Hambone Kelly's for Norman Granz that resulted in 39 sides that were mostly released on Mercury, and later on Clef, Down Home, and Verve. In January 1952, Good Time Records bought

126-1396: The 1960s and into the early 1970s. Artists included Prince Buster , Ambrose Campbell , Ginger Johnson , Ravi Shankar , and Lord Kitchener. Emil Shalit died in Slough , England, in 1983, at the age of 73. The discography goes on to say, however, that the Jubilee records were never issued. They were issued on the Disc label instead after the purchase of the matrices by Mo Asch. (Cedric J. Hayes, Gospel Records, 1943–1969: A Black Music Discography (paperback), Robert Laughton) Savoy 809] || LP: track 1. Fela's Special / track 2. Alcana / track 3. Highlife Rakers Calypso / track 4. Wa Ba Mi Jo Bosue Lonnie (vocals) Jim Eanes rhythm guitar Frank Burns electric guitar Arnold Terry rhythm guitar Allen Shelton banjo Cliff Raysdale bass Roy Russell fiddle. His other two records were also recorded at WHEE in May and June 1960 with an unreleased track, "If You Ain't Gonna Love Me". Louis Jordan (alto sax, vocals) Chris Barber (trombone, vocals) Pat Halcox (trombone) Ian Wheeler (clarinet, alto sax) Eddie Smith (banjo) Dick Smith (bass) Graham Burbidge (drums). Recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes 15 December 1962. In 1968, Nightingale

147-569: The 1960s he led his own bands, which also recorded for various labels. He also played with the Firehouse Five Plus Two , Turk Murphy , and a group that evolved into the World's Greatest Jazz Band . As a vocalist, "Hayes was noted for his straightforward singing of ballads and his flamboyant delivery of livelier songs." He died in San Francisco on March 13, 1972. With Bob Scobey Melodisc Records Melodisc Records

168-577: The Dawn Club after World War II. After the Dawn closed in 1947, the band started the club Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito, California. In 1949 the band performed with visiting musicians Kid Ory , James P. Johnson , and Mutt Carey . After Hambone Kelly's closed, the band broke up in 1950. By 1959 the band had lost two key players, Bob Scobey and Turk Murphy , who had gone on their own. Watters ended

189-504: The UK in 1960. Following its success, Shalit employed Sigimund "Siggy" Jackson to set up a subsidiary label, Blue Beat , which focused on Jamaican blues and ska music. For several years, the label name became synonymous with Jamaican music in the UK and became associated with the mod and later skinhead sub-cultures of the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1966, Melodisc set up a new sub-label, Fab Records , to release rocksteady music. The Melodisc label continued to release LPs through

210-636: The Yerba Vista Jazz Band. The Rough Guide concludes: “(they) had gone about as far as they could go: the revival had been launched worldwide and they had broadcast and recorded regularly for ten years.” Dining its ten year existence, the Yerba Buena Jazz Band recorded for several small labels. In 1941 And 1942, the band recorded in San Francisco for the young label Jazz Man Records . Four sessions recorded for Jazz Man Records resulted in 19 released 78 rpm sides. After

231-456: The band reorganized in 1946 after World War II it recorded for another new label, West Coast Records. The first seven sessions were held on seven consecutive Monday evenings from April 16, 1946 to May 27 in San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. The sound went by direct telephone line to a nearby recording studio where the masters were cut. West Coast recorded additional Avalon sessions in September

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252-767: The early 1950s, Melodisc started recording musicians in London, particularly at the Esquire studios in Bedford Court Mansions in Covent Garden. Early recordings were supervised by Denis Preston . Among the musicians recorded were Jamaican -born jazz musician Joe Harriott , pianist Russ Henderson , and the Trinidadians Lord Beginner and Lord Kitchener , whose song "Birth of Ghana" was recorded in London in late 1956. Melodisc

273-534: The first—and, at the time, the largest—independent record labels in the UK. Its offices were in Earlham Street, Covent Garden . The company was founded in 1949 when Shalit was still living in New York City , with the initial purpose of licensing American jazz for release in the UK. In London, Melodisc was managed by Jack Chilkes until a disagreement with Shalit led to his departure and

294-475: The label also released rhythm and blues , West Indian, and African recordings. Calypso and mento music was also released to cater to the growing Afro-Caribbean community in Britain . Early Melodisc releases in the UK included 78 rpm and later 45 rpm records, EPs , and LPs by artists such as Big Bill Broonzy , Louis Jordan , Josh White , Woody Guthrie , Lead Belly , and Charlie Parker . From

315-515: The masters from Jazz Man Records. It also acquired the masters from West Coast Records. The West Coast Records were reissued on three LPs (12001, 12002, and 12003) in 1954. The Jazz Man masters were also reissued on LP. In 1993, Fantasy Records released a four-CD, 96 recordings, set of the Good Times' Yerba Buena recordings. It includes all but three of the band's released sides and several unreleased ones through 1947. In 2001, Giants of Jazz,

336-402: The same year and February the next. The nine sessions resulted in 26 released sides on 78s. During the fall of 1946, ABC radio broadcast a 15-minute show three times a week at 11:45 p.m. from the Dawn Club. A fan recorded selections of these shows for his personal enjoyment. Sixteen songs from these broadcasts were released on a Fairmont Records LP record in 1973. The same fan also recorded

357-598: Was a record label founded by Emil E. Shalit in the late 1940s. It was one of the first independent record labels in the UK and the parent company of the Blue Beat label. Melodisc records was founded by Austrian -born American citizen Emil Edward Shalit (24 December 1909 – 23 April 1983) and his business partner Jack Chilkes. Melodisc began trading in London , England, in August 1949 and soon became established as one of

378-527: Was actively involved in exporting records from Britain to the emerging record-buying markets in West Africa and the Caribbean including Guyanese singer Terry Nelson (aka Halla Gala). From the mid- to late 1950s, Melodisc sought out Jamaican-produced records to distribute in Britain and made deals with producers such as Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid . It released Laurel Aitken 's "Lonesome Lover" in

399-471: Was part of a vaudeville troupe in the Midwest after 1923, and lived in San Francisco from 1927. He became more popular in the 1930s through radio and club performances. From 1938 to 1940 he played in a big band led by Lu Watters , after which he spent a decade with the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, playing rhythm banjo and, on occasion, drums. He spent almost all of the 1950s singing with Bob Scobey 's band. In

420-599: Was the Big Bear Lodge on Redwood Road in the Oakland hills. In 1938, he formed a band that included Hayes, Helm, Squire Gersh , Bob Scobey , and Russell Bennett. The band found steady work at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, slipping in pieces of traditional New Orleans jazz into the repertoire until Watters was fired. In 1939, he established the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver , adding trombone player Turk Murphy . ( Yerba Buena

441-424: Was the first name of San Francisco.) He brought in pianist Forrest Browne, who taught the band music by Jelly Roll Morton . Watters wrote music and arrangements to add to the traditional repertoire. The band performed at the Dawn Club in San Francisco, where it "began a phenomenally successful career as America’s first real revivalist band." It went on hiatus in 1942 when Watters entered the U.S. Navy but reunited at

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