[Dixielandjazz] Lu Watters

[Bill Haesler]

My dear mate, Jack Mitchell, commented in his own straight-from-the shoulder style:

> Rubbish - musicians in Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart, and no doubt many other cities, were playing traditional jazz years before they had heard of Lu Watters or before he had recorded. He certainly did have an influence on many musicians later, but to say that he invented traditional jazz is absurd. If anyone influenced the early traditionalists it would have been the Bobcats and/ or Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band.

Onya Jack,
Very kind regards,
Bill.
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