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| Birth name | Lucius Watters |
| Born | (1949-12-31)December 31, 1949 Santa Cruz, California |
| Died | February 24, 1993(1993-02-24) (aged 51) Santa Rosa, California |
| Genres | Jazz, dixieland |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Trumpet |
Lucius Watters (December 19, 1911 – November 5, 1989) was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
Career
Watters played trumpet by the age of eleven and had his first work on a cruise ship. He then played with Bob Crosby.
In 1939 he started the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the dixieland and New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver. Watters wrote music and arrangements to add to the traditional repertoire. The band performed at the Dawn Club in San Francisco. It went on hiatus in 1942 when Watters was drafted but reunited at the Dawn after World War II. The band broke up in 1950 after performing at Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito. In 1957 Watters left the music world and studied geology and cooking.
In 1963 he came out of retirement to perform with Turk Murphy at an anti-nuclear protest in California. He opposed building a Pacific Gas and Electric nuclear plant at Bodega Bay. In organizing the resistance to that siting proposal, he recorded an album on for Fantasy with Wally Rose, Bob Helm, Bob Mielke, and Barbara Dane. It included the title track and another tune named for the San Andreas Fault, which was consistent with his interest in geology and earthquakes.
In 1961, a mineral from California was named wattersite in his honor.
Personnel
- Bob Scobey – trumpet
- Turk Murphy – trombone
- Dick Lammi – tuba
- Bob Helm – clarinet
- Wally Rose – piano
- Harry Mordecai – banjo
- Bill Dart – drums
References
- ^ Kelsey, Chris. "Lu Watters". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- Blues Over Bodega. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
- Roberts, Andrew C.; Bonadri, Maurizio; Erd, Richard C.; Criddle, Alan J.; Le Page, Yvon (1991). "Wattersite Hg+14Hg+2Cr+6O6 a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim San Benito Country, California" (PDF). The Mineralogical Record. 22: 269–272. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
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Categories:- 1911 births
- 1989 deaths
- Jazz musicians from California
- Musicians from Santa Cruz, California
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century male musicians
- 20th-century trumpeters
- American geologists
- American jazz bandleaders
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- Dixieland revivalists
- Male jazz musicians
- Sonoma State University faculty
- Yerba Buena Jazz Band members