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Born | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | January 27, 1938
Died | September 17, 2024 86) Inglewood, California, US | (aged
Genres | Jazz |
Instruments | Drums |
James Howard Smith (born January 27, 1938) is an American jazz drummer.
The cousin of Larry Young, [1] Smith was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the Al Germansky School for Drummers from 1951 to 1954 and the Juilliard School in 1959 and 1960.
Smith began his professional career in New York City around 1960.
In the 1960s, he played with Jimmy Forrest (1960), Larry Young (1960–62), Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (1962–63), Pony Poindexter (1963), Jimmy Witherspoon (1963), Gildo Mahones (1963), Jimmy McGriff (1963–65), and Groove Holmes (1965).
From 1967 to 1974 he played with Erroll Garner before moving to California around 1975. He then played with: Benny Carter (1975, 1978, 1985), Sonny Criss (1975), Bill Henderson (1975, 1979), Hank Jones (1976), Ernestine Anderson (1976, 1986), Plas Johnson (1976), Phineas Newborn, Jr. (1976), Harry Edison (1976–78, with Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Zoot Sims), Lorez Alexandria (1977–78), Tommy Flanagan (1978), Terry Gibbs (1978, 1981), Bob Cooper (1979), Marshal Royal (1980), Great Guitars (1980), Barney Kessel (1981), Herb Ellis (1981), Buddy DeFranco (1981), Al Cohn (1983), Red Holloway (1987), and Dave McKenna (1988). In 1993, he toured Japan with Jimmy Smith and Kenny Burrell.
In 1977, Smith performed at the Montreux International Jazz Festival with Oscar Peterson, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ray Brown, Benny Carter, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie.
With Ernestine Anderson
With Kenny Burrell
With Benny Carter
With Sonny Criss
With Harry Edison
With Tommy Flanagan
With Jimmy Forrest
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Milt Jackson
With Etta Jones
With Hank Jones
With Barney Kessel
With Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan
With Gildo Mahones
With Jimmy McGriff
With Phineas Newborn, Jr.
With Pony Poindexter
With Jimmy Witherspoon
With Larry Young
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