Roger Smith

b. 1945, Dallas, Tx, USA. Smith was inspired from an early on age to consider music lessons. We were young within the rural section of central California where his parents had been sharecroppers, he began monitoring piano although he was mainly self-taught. Within the 60s, he offered in the military, training being a medic. He continuing to try out music, developing a blues music group, Blind Melon. Seated in with blues designer Freddie Ruler, whose regular piano participant had didn’t turn up to get a club date, resulted in employment on Smith’s launch from the military. He toured with Ruler and then used various other performers from the blues, jazz, nation and pop worlds. Included in this have already been Gerald Albright, Jeff Beck, Rick Braun, Coke Escovedo, Gladys Knight, Willie Nelson, Phil Perry, Tower Of Power and Peter White colored. In 1996, Smith, who also takes on Hammond B3, produced his personal name debut with My Colours. At that time that this recording is at the producing, Smith’s boy and dad both died as well as the ensuing psychological turmoil added a dark advantage to his music, an excellent that arranged it notably aside from many soft jazz produces. His next launch, Both Sides, made an appearance in the very best 10 on Billboard’s Modern Jazz graph for 17 weeks, and several awards followed. Using its easily reflective surface as well as the concealed depths of spirit, Smith’s playing appeals not merely to viewers for soft jazz but additionally to those that value the spikier seasoning he provides by method of components of funk and R&B. Among music artists with whom Smith spent some time working and who’ve made an appearance on his albums, are Dave Koz, guitarists Ray Obiedo and Michael Gregory.