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Yerba Buena was a Latin fusion band. The group, active between 2003 and 2009, was founded by Venezuelan musician and producer Andres Levin.. Yerba Buena's music (as described by Razor & Tie, the band's record label) is a blend of Latin music (Cuban rumba, Colombian cumbia, Pan-Caribbean Soca, and Cuban Boogaloo) with hip-hop, Motown, soul, Afrobeat, and a dash of Middle Eastern themes.
The band found steady work at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, slipping in pieces of traditional New Orleans jazz into the repertoire until Watters was fired. [3] In 1939, he established the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver, adding trombone player Turk Murphy. [3] [4] (Yerba Buena was the first name of San ...
The band found steady work at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, slipping in pieces of traditional New Orleans jazz into the repertoire until Watters was fired. [4] In 1939, he established the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver. [4] [6] (Yerba Buena was the first name of San Francisco.)
From 1938 to 1940 he played in a big band led by Lu Watters, after which he spent a decade with the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, playing rhythm banjo and, on occasion, drums. [3] He spent almost all of the 1950s singing with Bob Scobey's band. [3] In the 1960s he led his own bands, which also recorded for various labels. [3]
Levin said that the same year the band was founded, he had been in Nigeria, Cuba, and Bahia... [and] those influences combined to form the Yerba Buena sound." [6] Levin has also said that even though Yerba Buena "experiments with many influences, the basis of the group is inspired by the African and Cuban diaspora, where both worlds meet. The ...
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1957 Music for Losers (Verve) 1958 Turk Murphy at Easy Street (Verve) 1958 Live at Easy Street, Vol. 1 (Dawn Club) 1959 Turk Murphy at the Round Table ; 1959 Music for Wise Guys and Boosters (Roulette) 1962 Let the Good Times Roll; 1972 In Concert, Vol. 1 ; 1972 Turk Murphy and His San Francisco Jazz Band, Vol. 2 (GHB) 1972 In Concert, Vol. 2 (GHB)