James Smith

The cavalcade of music artists named Wayne Smith would move with an uncommon grace were each of them striding with time using the guitarist of the name who’s connected with pianist Fats Waller’s recordings through the ’30s. Smith strummed up a way to obtain rhythm acoustic guitar chords using the regularity and dedication of the pizza chef planning sliced up mushrooms for the evening’s diners. When Smith was an associate from the effervescent combo referred to as Fat Waller & His Tempo he was frequently coupled with players such as for example bassist Charles Turner and drummer Arnold Boling. The excess fat discography of Fat contains some two dozen edges that feature Smith, evidently representing the entirety of documented documentation from the guitarist.