[Dixielandjazz] Lu Watters Band was Turk Murphy

Steve Barbone barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Thu May 31 05:57:56 PDT 2007


Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote (polite snip) about Lu Watters,
^Turk Murphy and the band in the late 1940s.

> By that time the jazz world was taking notice of the Lu Watters band
> and the imitators WERE prowling.

The imitators are still prowling, but somehow the magic has been lost. Ain't
nobody these days anywhere near the originals.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

"Once you played something, it's out there for the world to share and learn
from, not repeat." - Dizzy Gillespie




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