Carrie Smith

A blues belter in the common custom, Carrie Smith was created August 25, 1941, in Fort Gaines, GA. Despite producing her debut on the 1957 Newport Jazz Celebration while an associate of a fresh Jersey cathedral choir, she didn’t truly emerge over the jazz circuit before early ’70s, together with Big “Tiny” Small. In November of 1974, Smith’s riveting functionality as Bessie Smith (no relationship) in Dick Hyman’s Carnegie Hall creation of Satchmo Appreciated brought her popularity throughout the worldwide musical community. Shortly, she started touring being a single act, and very quickly began recording aswell; still, despite subsequent shows with the NY Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Tyree Glenn, as well as the World’s Greatest Jazz Music group, Smith remained bit more when compared to a cult shape in the U.S., showing better received in European countries. While rooted securely in the blues and gospel, she was a vocalist of substantial range and depth, as recordings like 1976’s Perform Your Duty and the next year’s IF YOU ARE Down and Out demonstrate; despite never making significant achievement, she remained a dynamic shape both on-stage and in the studio room through the 1990s.