Washboard Wiggles -South Frisco Jazz Band 1986

Washboard Wiggles -South Frisco Jazz Band 1986

(Courtesy of Richard Roy Miller, Bill Knowles and Wally Holmes from Present Past Production)

The South Frisco Jazz Band is one of the longest existing bands in Jazz: Founded in 1956 by some jazz enthusiasts during their high school days, they started playing at local coffee houses, then they moved on tto he jazz clubs in the Bay area and the whole state of California. Finally, the musicians were invited to play nearly every important festival throughout the USA, and then also to Europe and Japan.
Musically, the SFJB is typical "West Coast trad", showing influences of their heros Lu Watters and Turk Murphy, among others. Their unique speciality is their two-cornet-sound in the tradition of King Oliver-Louis Armstrong.
The South Frisco Jazz Band has disbanded around 2001 after a very long musical life of nearly 45 years.
In this clip we hear the band play a composition by pianist Tiny Parham called Washboard Wiggles, with solo work by Bob Raggio
In this session recorded at the Crazy Horse Saloon in St Ana in Califfornia we see the band at the height of their career. They were stylistically the top band in the United States.
Leader Vince Saunders banjo, Leon Oakley cornet, Dan Comins cornet, Mike Baird clarinet, Jim Snyder trombone, Robbie Rhodes piano, Bob Rann tuba and Bob Raggio washboard

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• classic
• revival
• south
• Frisco

[WildCardsJazz]

BOB, JUST REVISITED OUR FRIENDS HERE....MISS YOU WITH RANIER AND WILD CARDS JAZZ FUN A BIT AGO, SMILES.....WARMLY, RANDY KELLER.

[micheldebatz]

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[micheldebatz]

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[micheldebatz]

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[ssballs]

Wonderful!

[SexyJesusH]

thats my pops!!!

[jazzgirl1920s]

I disagree with what you wrote that the band was at the height of their career in this 1986 video. I believe they were at the height of their career back in the late 1960's when I used to go hear them at the Pizza Palace in Huntington Beach, California. Back then they had Papa Ray Ronnei on cornet and Ray Brewer on trombone. They made an lp back then on the Vault label called "Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man" Look for that lp and listen to it if you want to hear how really great the band sounded.

[WildCardsJazz]

Bob, I always loved playing this tune on TUBA with my Rainier and Wild Cards Jazz! You were great! Especially with Glenn Koch on washboard....I miss him too!!!! Perfect tempo! Again love the pro production. Leon is really a kick and my Dad loved to tease him relentlessly. LOL

[ossy3154]

I liked the sax solo, well I liked all the solos

haven't seen or heard the washboard for years.

Absolutely a great band- playing for the enjoyment of it.

[MartinJel]

Wow - talk about a rarity well revived. Tiny would be proud.