In the mid-sixties, Ted Shafer had the opportunity to move closer to the music scene that he loved, the Bay Area, and he took it. Soon, he had a Jelly Roll Jazz Band again performing in two flavors: an eight or nine-piece two cornet, two banjo group similar to Joe "King" Olivers' Creole Jazz Band and a five or six-piece single trumpet, single banjo unit patterned after a New Orleans style 4/4 ensemble.

The band attracted some of the members that played with it in Los Angeles and well as a number of outstanding musicians in the area. Cornet player Ray Ronnei, who had inspired Ted to have the five or six-piece unit, also moved north early on. Trombone player Charles Sonnanstine and piano player Robin Watterau, who had advised Ted when he formed his first group in Los Angeles, came over from the Great Pacific Jazz Band. (Note: Ted first met Charles when the latter was playing in Cincinnati.) Player-of-many-instruments Tom Barneby eventually moved north and is still with the band.

The popularity of real jazz in the Bay Area in the sixties had a good news, bad news aspect. Ted could keep his two groups busy but once in a while people wanted both groups at the same time. Ted reluctantly solved the problem by engaging another banjo player and giving the reins of one group to one of the regulars.

For six years during the late nineties, Ted, the band and the city hosted the Suisun City Jazz Festival for one day each year. It was begun in conjucnction with a new Suisun Harbor. Some five other bands usually participated.

Today, when the occasion calls for the larger unit, there are two cornets, two banjos, trombone, clarinet, piano, tuba and drums. For the smaller group, there's one less cornet, one less banjo and no drums. The six-piece group is the one that appears at the Champa Restaurant on Friday nights. This site presently covers the members of the six instrument unit but plans call for eventually covering the other musicians.