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Marvin "Smitty" Smith
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Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Born June 24, 1961 in Waukegan (Illinois). "It was a very natural inclination for me to play drums," says Marvin "Smitty" Smith. A glance at his early life validates that truth. Born the son of a drummer, Marvin, Sr., was always surrounded by music in the house. At six months old, he would climb up on the large lounge chair positioned directly in front of his father's drum set and would watch him practice, intensely. Whenever his father took a break, he would crawl over and press the foot pedals and attempt to emulate his dad. That experience, and banging on pots and pans, was the extent of his playing until he began formal training at the age of three. Today, Marvin "Smitty" Smith is a young musician extraordinaire whose work has been described as a "comment on invention, firm and adventurous time and technical sufficiency." He has traveled extensively throughout the Orient, Europe, and the continental USA; and he has shared the stage with such greats as Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Frank Foster and Frank Wess, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton, and Milt Jackson
Jimi Hendrix - A Jazz Experience, Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
As we have been exploring how Jimi Hendrix has inspired the jazz world, this segment focuses on the connections between Hendrix and Miles Davis and musicians close to him.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Gil Evans, Laurent Cugny “Stone Free" Rhythm-a-ning (Polygram) 0:16 Host ...
My Conversation with David Binney
by Glenn Astarita
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 1999. New York City-based saxophonist and composer David Binney has been getting lots of well-deserved attention over the last several years. Three excellent CDs with the unique and hard driving band Lost Tribe, stints with Medeski Martin & Wood, Drew Gress' Jagged Sky, Aretha ...
Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid
by Jim Worsley
In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...
The Red Door
By Orrin Evans
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Red Door; Weezy; Phoebe's Stroll; The Good Life; Big Small; Dexter's Tune; Amazing Grace; Feed The Fire; All The Things You Are; Smoke Rings; They Won't Go When I Go; I Have The Feeling I've Been Here Before.
Uptown on Mardi Gras Day
Label: Troubadour Jass
Released: 2023
Track listing: Carnival Time;
Uptown On Mardi Gras Day;
Big Chief;
Uptown Boogie;
New Suit;
All On A Mardi Gras Day;
Midnight At The Zulu Ball;
Street Parade;
Mardi Gras Mambo;
So New Orleans!;
They All Ask'd For You;
Mardi Gras Mambo (For the Jazz Cats).
The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 1996-1998
by Robert Middleton
The albums featured in the fourth installment of 72 Jazz Thrillers are from some of the most famous and accomplished bandleaders in all of jazz. The artists featured here, some with careers of as long as 60 years and half of whom are still living and recording, made albums that prove the timelessness of jazz. From ...
Weezy
Album: The Red Door
By Orrin Evans
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:11
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marvin "Smitty" Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Marvin “Smitty" Smith's birthday today! Marvin “Smitty" Smith, Born June 24, 1961 in Waukegan (Illinois). “It was a very natural inclination for me to play drums," says Marvin “Smitty" Smith. A glance at his early life validates that truth. Born the son of a drummer, Marvin, Sr., was always surrounded by ...
Orrin Evans: The Red Door
by Mike Jurkovic
A most generous craftsman, composer and bandleader, pianist Orrin Evans never fails to bring out the best of whoever he chooses to create with. The Red Door is gratefully, and gracefully, no exception to that rule. Whatever musical setting Evans chooses to practice his sinewy, r'n'b inflected post-bop in--sideman, big band, trio, quartet, duo, ...
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