Bob Scobey, one of America’s outstanding jazz traditionalists, is a major force in reviving the New Orleans ensemble-style jazz, frequently dubbed “The San Francisco Style.” Bob was a trumpeter with Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena Jazz Band, named after an island in San Francisco Bay, which began to stir up some interest among jazz devotees, students and old Dixie sidemen, in the early 1940s. Disenchanted by the bop sounds emanating from the East, tired of the stock popular songs of the day and the mechanical commercialism of the large swing orchestras, more and more fans flocked to this “revival.” It resulted in the unearthing of a vast reservoir of traditional jazz material, still vital and arresting, which was reintroduced to the world as living music. The Scobey sound on this album is an extension of this movement; it is a “happy sound” that has been widely acclaimed by his listeners, ranging from sophisticated night club patrons to eager young college crowds at campus jazz sessions. Bob and the boys open the alb