SILVER DOLLAR JAZZ BAND 2

This is a 10-minute video about the formation of the Silver Dollar Jazz Band at Sacramento High School in 1949. This band introduced the Lu Watters sound into the area and was the first paid band to placy at the first Shakey's Pizza Parlor that opened in Sacramento in 1954. It caused a sensation. Jazz historian K. O. Eckland gives this band the credit for the jazz revival in Sacramento that extended to the formation of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society. This video was one of the winners in the "A Place Called Sacramento" film festival in 1974. IT was produced and directed and edited by Burt Wilsonwho owns the copyright.