Huey “Piano” Smith was a significant area of the fun new Orleans piano custom, subsequent in the footsteps of Teacher Longhair and Body fat Domino to consider his place among the Crescent City’s R&B top notch. He was also among R&B’s great comedians, his greatest singles coordinating the Coasters for …

When Lonnie Liston Smith produced the changeover from sideman to head in 1973, that was the start of a fusion/crossover/post-bop music group that he dubbed Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes. The acoustic pianist/electrical keyboardist, who was simply given birth to in Richmond, VA, on Dec 28, 1940, and …

Saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith had a significant part in the Uk blues boom from the 1960s, taking part in in the rings of Alexis Korner, Graham Relationship, and John Mayall. In every of his function, and especially in the past due-’60s music group Colosseum, he ventured in to the little-explored place …

Harpist Whispering Smith managed to get in for the tail end from the swamp blues motion that swept the Baton Rouge area, dealing with Lightnin’ Slender and Silas Hogan prior to making his very own great singles for Crowley, LA manufacturer J.D. Miller. Alternating down-in-the-bayou entries such as for example …

A jazz pianist noted for his versatility and elegance, Derek Smith was created August 17, 1931, in London, Britain. After taking on the piano in early child years, he started his professional profession at age simply 14, and by the first ’50s was a staple within the U.K. jazz picture, …

A consistently adventurous trumpeter that has trapped to playing avant-garde jazz and classical music throughout his job, Leo Smith’s dried out, introverted design (making extensive usage of space) is a solid contrast towards the even more jubilant plane tickets of Lester Bowie. Smith originally performed drums, mellophone, and People from …

Australian brass professional Russell Smith has performed and documented using the group called Things of Rock and Real wood and singer/songwriter Paul Kelly, amongst others. That is one trumpet participant using the surname Smith who’s not area of the prolonged family that both Joe Smith and another Russell Smith sprang.

This strange sounding unit was the brainchild of the devoted, if somewhat eccentric man namely Henry Harlin Smith (b. 16 Might 1881, Springtime Creek, near Calico Rock and roll, Arkansas, USA, d. 14 Oct 1931). Smith, a professional doctor, resided in Springtime Creek and produced his living being a cosmetic …

b. Glenroy Ernest Smith, c.1948, Jamaica, West Indies. Smith in the beginning loved notoriety when his solitary ‘Pitta Patta’, supported with ‘Lichfield Landscapes’, topped the Jamaican graphs in 1973, making use of Lee Perry’s ‘musical transplant’ tempo. The music was voted as the very best song of the entire year …

A lot of the thousands of people who also found pony-tailed Smith play scorching acoustic guitar throughout a ten-year stint in the Sunday Night Live Music group know just a portion of an excellent, multi-faceted talent. Music artists are more acquainted with him. The set of world-class players he offers …