Marvin "Smitty" Smith (born June 24, 1961) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musical training at the age of three. [1]
After graduating from Waukegan East High School, Smith attended Berklee, [2] graduating in 1981. Smith has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums. [3] He has toured with, among others, Sting, Dave Holland, Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and Steve Coleman. [3] He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet, [1] and was the drummer for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band, led by Kevin Eubanks, from January 30, 1995 [3] until the show's end on May 29, 2009. Smith was also the drummer for the Jay Leno Show band in 2009-10.[ citation needed ]
With Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison
With Hamiet Bluiett
With Joanne Brackeen
With Igor Butman
With Donald Byrd
With Don Byron
With Michel Camilo
With Steve Coleman and M-Base
With Larry Coryell
With Art Davis
With Ray Drummond
With Robin Eubanks
With Art Farmer
With Frank Foster and Frank Wess
With Benny Golson
With Gunter Hampel New York Orchestra
With John Hicks
With Dave Holland
With Andy Jaffe
With the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet
With Carmen Lundy
With Buddy Montgomery
With Ralph Moore
With David Murray
With Joe Newman and Joe Wilder
With Emily Remler
With Sonny Rollins
With Michel Sardaby
With Archie Shepp
With Superblue
With Harvie Swartz, Mick Goodrick, and John Abercrombie
With McCoy Tyner
With Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers, and Bob Stewart
With Bobby Watson
With Tommy Ward
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks is an American jazz and fusion guitarist and composer. He was the leader of The Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2010. He also led the Primetime Band on the short-lived The Jay Leno Show.
Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She is one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. She has won numerous awards, including two Grammys, and was named "America's Best Singer" by Time magazine in 2001.
David Holland is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States since the early 1970s.
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Bill Pierce is an American jazz saxophonist.
Lonnie Plaxico is an American jazz double bassist.
The Razor's Edge is a studio album by the Dave Holland Quintet, recorded in February 1987 and released on ECM later that year—the third and final release by the quintet, featuring alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, trombonist Robin Eubanks and drummer ”Smitty” Smith.
Ray Drummond is an American jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He can be heard on hundreds of albums and co-leads The Drummonds with Renee Rosnes and Billy Drummond.
Ralph Peterson Jr. was an American jazz drummer, composer, teacher, and bandleader.
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G-Man is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. It was recorded at an outdoor concert on August 16, 1986, held at Opus 40 in Saugerties, New York. The concert was filmed for a documentary about Rollins, directed by Robert Mugge, before being released on record in November 1987 by Milestone Records. G-Man received positive reviews from critics, some of whom called it one of Rollins' best albums.
Extensions is an album by the Dave Holland Quartet, recorded in September 1989 and released on ECM the following year—Holland's eight album for the label. The quartet features Holland Quintet saxophonist Steve Coleman and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith alongside guitarist Kevin Eubanks, in his first appearance on a Holland record.
Superblue was an American jazz ensemble that released two albums for Blue Note Records in 1988 and 1989. It was led by Don Sickler. The ensemble played in the hard bop style of Blue Note acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
Jerome Harris is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Chico Freeman.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Charlie Haden.
Akira Tana is an American jazz drummer.
Thomas W. Campbell is an American jazz drummer.