[Dixielandjazz] More on Lu Watters?

Burt Wilson futurecon@earthlink.net
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:38:41 -0800


in addition to Dottie, who is a grea source, you also want to contact Leon
Oakley.

Burt Wilson

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:36:58 -0600 Bob Romans <cellblk7@attbi.com> wrote:

> 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 unpublished.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
> >=iii=
> To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List ; Dan
> Augustine 
> 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 
> >To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List 
> >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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