Benicia Sundown
{frisco} 27—Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band Save Trad Jazz, An Interview With Hal Smith
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In this episode, I interview drummer and jazz historian Hal Smith. We discuss the music scene in San Francisco in the 30s and 40s and how one man, Lu Watters and his band The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, saved traditional jazz after the emergence of swing music. The musicians, the clubs, and how an girlfriend’s irate father with a pistol put Lu and his band on the front page, launching their career.
All in all, fascinating story!
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solitude
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I came across this sunken ship in the Alameda estuary, right next to Nob Hill Foods. Naturally I had to take some pictures.
I got curious about it: I’d never heard of or seen a sunken sailing vessel in the estuary. Here is what Google Gemini reported:
(more…){wild bubble} I wish David Bowie had told us he was sick.
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