Bob Scobey

Robert Alexander " Bob" Scobey ( born December 9, 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico, † June 12, 1963 in Montreal) was an American trumpeter and next to Turk Murphy and Lu Watters important band leader of the Dixieland revival in San Francisco.

Scobey grew up in California and played in the 1930s in dance bands. In 1938 he began playing jazz and in 1940 second trumpeter in the " Yerba Buena Jass Band" by Lu Watters, who started the Dixieland Revival in San Francisco. From 1949 he had his own band " Bob Scobey 's Frisco Band", which until 1953 in " Victor and Roxie 's " appeared in 1950. An important member of this band was Clancy Hayes, who worked there as a banjo player and singer; he left Scobeys band in 1959., the " Frisco Band" never played outside of California, but was 1952/53, broadcast on television. In 1953 they played with Louis Armstrong at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena. In the same year they switched to the " Rancho Grande " in Lafayette. Scobey opened in 1959 the club " Bourbon Street" in Chicago, where he played in clubs and died in 1963 in Montreal, Canada from cancer. His wife, Jan, 1976 Scobey published his biography " He rambled! Til Cancer put him down " (with Pal ). He also took on with Sidney Bechet.

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