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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. [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.)
Lu Watters & the Yerba Buena Jazz Band is the name of an American traditional jazz revival band founded by Lu Watters in 1940. [1] Yerba Buena was the original name of San Francisco, California . Notable members included singer and banjoist Clancy Hayes , clarinetist Bob Helm , trumpeter Bob Scobey , trombonist Turk Murphy , tubist/bassist Dick ...
Together with Diamantes, Levin formed the band Yerba Buena. Before Yerba Buena, Levin had worked in several disparate genres, including R&B, soul, and Latin. 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."
In 1999, after moving to New York, Bueno became a founding member of the Cuban latin fusion band Yerba Buena, writing or co-writing with the founder Andrés Levín from Venezuela many songs for their debut album President Alien. [4] Yerba Buena's tracks have been used in several US movies and Pepsi commercials.
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]
He is a founding member of the band Yerba Buena. They recorded two albums. In 2003, President Alien, and in 2005 their album Island Life was No. 62 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart. He is a member of the Nuevo Jazz Latino program which is a part of Jazz at Lincoln Center. [7] [8] Martinez became leader of the Pedrito Martinez Group in 2005.
Bunk Johnson & His New Orleans Jazz Band, George Lewis, Louis Armstrong Musical artist Willie Gary " Bunk " Johnson (December 27, 1889 – July 7, 1949) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American prominent jazz trumpeter from New Orleans .