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>>>Ted Shafer first formed the Jelly Roll Jazz Band in Los Angeles in 1959, with an 8 piece King Oliver/Lu Watters style 2 trumpet band.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">With the exception of buying some charts from him via email, all my contact with Ted was in Los Angeles, when the eight-piece band played in West LA. I spent many a Sunday afternoon listening, and I seem to recall sitting in on second banjo occasionally. I got to be friends with the regular guys, especially tuba player Pete Kier. </div>
<div dir="ltr">There was a Sunday when there was no piano player, so I sat down and played my two-left-hands thing: bass notes in the left hand, chords with the right hand. We reached a place where there was a piano solo and everybody yelled "Take It!" I managed to fumble a few mostly-right notes, and it remains to this day my only public piano solo. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Ted was a good guy, and you always miss good guys.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Maurie Walker</div>
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