[Dixielandjazz] More on Lu Watters?

[Bob Romans]

If any of you want to hear more about Lu Watters, get in touch with Dottie
Lawless!! She has ALL of Lu's music charts/books, and she and her late
husband, Doctor Ed Lawless, were with Lu right up until his death. I'm
absolutely certain she knows lots of stories about Lu.
Here is her email address, plus she is on the DJML.
1lawless@gte.net
Her husband took photos by the thousands of all of the great musicians. She
has filing cabinets full of great pictures, many if not most of them
unpublished. I've seen a picture Doc took of Satchmo relaxing on their
living room couch...
Dottie is a wonderful lady, and I think she could be considered the "QUEEN
of West Coast Trad Jazz".
To use Will's sign-off..
Kindly,
Bob Romans
Cell Block 7
Jazz Band
1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
Lodi, California, 95242
Phone.....209-368-3255
Cell...209-747-1148
Fax...209-368-3255
WebPages..click below
www.cellblockseven2002.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Norrie Thomson <jnt@nosmoth.fsnet.co.uk>
To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>; Dan
Augustine <ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] More on Lu Watters?


>Hi Listmates
>
>I second Dan's request.
>
>Norrie
>
>Norrie Thomson
>Edinburgh
>Scotland
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu>
>To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:02 PM
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] More on Lu Watters?
>
>
>> Folks--
>>     Lately i've been wanting to read more about Lu Watters.  I already
>have and have read (and re-read) the two books from the San Francisco
>Traditional Jazz Foundation (at http://www.sftradjazz.org) called _Emperor
>Norton's Hunch_ by John Buchanan, and _The Great Jazz Revival_ by Pete
Clute
>and Jim Goggin.  They have whet my whistle for more about Lu Watters.
>>     I have also found a couple of websites with some paragraphs about
him,
>but what i want i guess are newspaper and magazine articles written about
>(and by) him, especially while he was still alive.  I'm especially curious
>how someone with his talent (both for playing and composing) could abruptly
>quit and do something else (apparently as a cook for some state
institution)
>for the rest of his life (except for the Bodega Bay concert, of course).
>>     I've already started to go through the UT library's copies of the
>_Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature_, starting about 1940, but before
i
>dive into that and the _Music Index_, does anyone know of any other books
or
>bibliographies on Lu Watters?  Are there any books (histories, etc.) with
>substantial sections or chapters on ol' Lu and/or the Yerba Buena Jazz
Band?
>>     Thanks.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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