Robert Alexander Scobey Jr. (December 9, 1916 – June 12, 1963)[1] was an American jazz trumpet player of traditional or Dixieland music based originally in the San Francisco area and later in Chicago, Illinois.
After his family moved to Berkeley, California in 1930, his high school band director recognized his ability and encouraged him to study with good musicians.
In addition to Watters and Scobey, the band included Bob Helm, Clancy Hayes, Squire Girsback, Russ Bennett, and Turk Murphy.
In 1946 the reorganized band performed in the Dawn Club in San Francisco, then the next year moved to Hambone Kelly's in El Cerrito across the bay.
[4] The collaboration recorded over two hundred tracks, including Hayes' own compositions, such as "Huggin' and a Chalkin'," before he left in 1959 to follow a solo career.
[6] From 1950, the group had a three-year residency at Victor & Roxie's in Oakland, California, where the band "met with instant and rapidly growing public support.
[7] In 1955, Scobey and his band played dates at San Quentin Prison and at the Rancho Grande in Lafayette, California — a sizable roadhouse with a dance floor.