[Dixielandjazz] This Week's show on RWJ about San Francisco Jazz

[Donald Mopsick]

To the Denizens of the DJML:

The show on Riverwalk Jazz this week is the one we recorded at
Stanford about Lu Watters and Turk Murphy. Here is the tune list:

NIGHTSPELL
SHAKE THAT THING
CAKEWALKIN' BABIES FROM HOME
ALL NIGHT BLUES
FROGGIE MOORE RAG
TERRIBLE BLUES
SOME OF THESE DAYS
MY HEART
OSTRICH WALK
FRIENDLESS BLUES

So what could possibly be new and exciting about all this? After all,
everyone who inhabits this world of trad jazz has been over this road
a million times, right?

Here's what's new: the dimension of social media and its unique
ability to link up people, media, music and thought itself. Now we
have linked assets of Facebook, Twitter, websites and at least 3
institutions that are participating: Riverwalk Jazz, the Stanford
Library of Recorded Sound, and the San Francisco Traditional Jazz
Foundation.

http://riverwalkjazz.org
http://www.sftradjazz.org/
https://lib.stanford.edu/ars

This is from William Carter, sftradjazz Director:

"Stanford's Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound have all of
Turk's and Lu's commercially issued recordings, to my knowledge, all
of their handwritten arrangements in (in Turk's case six or seven
parts), and by far the world's most complete holdings of photographs,
writings, flyers, posters, account books, airshots and many other
related materials on Murphy. It was a primary mission of the San
Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation to find a permanent home for
this trove, and we eventually did it at Stanford, along the way
issuing many CDs of previously unreleased materials by both Turk's and
Lu's bands.  There are many ancillary things such as (according to
Leon Oakley) Turk or Helm having done the taped interviews (with
George Avakian, long Turk's A&R man at Columbia) of bandleader/pianist
Sid LeProtti which led to the definitive book on jazz life on the
Barbary Coast after WWI by Tom Stoddard which the San Francisco
Traditional Jazz Foundation was responsible for re-publishing in
expanded form, a solid colorful history which we still offer for sale.
 There are other related recordings and related items by sidemen such
as pianist Wally Rose and by bands led by several other Murphy/Watters
alumni such as Bob Scobey.

"Stoddard acquired the photographic holdings of Pops Foster which
SFTJF was instrumental in transferring to Stanford (his widow and he
lived across the street from Riverwalk Jazz Executive Producer
Margaret Moos Pick in the odd circular ways of this art) many which
can be visited on www.sftradjazz.org, where all our reissued CDs are
also offered

"I myself toured in Turk's band for 5 months in 1955 when we recorded
an album and some rare singles for Columbia including 45's with Billy
Butterfield and Lotte Lenya and Milt Hinton.

"I would encourage you to look through sftradjazz.org and find
anything else appropriate.  At this moment the final transfer of the
original hand written Lu Watters arrangements to Stanford is in
process--Jim Cullum knows and cares a lot about this, and he and a lot
of us worked on it for decades. The Cullum band played in Carnegie
Hall for that final big Turk concert in 1987. Regional styles are
endemic to jazz history, and Stanford's collection is pre-eminent in
that regard nationally, comparable to Tulane and Rutgers."

So, those of you who have not jet "joined the party" of social media:
here's a great reason for you to do so now. Here's how:

1. If you have not done so already, establish a Facebook account, then
visit and LIKE at http://www.facebook.com/riverwalkjazz/ I will be
posting lots of goodies, including YouTubes of Lu and Turk's bands, as
well as the 1971 Sesame Street shorts starring Turk and the Band.
2. Go ahead and visit and LIKE Bill Carter's Facebook fan page at
http://www.facebook.com/wcarter.us since he will be posting some of
this stuff at his organization.
3. Make use of the links listed earlier in this message and support
the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Please report back to us on
this list about your experience and impressions, suggestions for all
of this. You are part of this rather small and discerning (yet
passionate) community, Let your voice be heard!

Oh, and don't forget to listen to the show on our website at
http://riverwalkjazz.org beginning tomorrow at 9:00 AM Pacific.

Best,

mopo

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