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Tab Smith

Born: January 11, 1909

Article: Interview

Leonard E. Jones: Taking Control Of Destiny

by Barbara Ina Frenz
January 6, 2023

Bassist and photographer Leonard E. Jones laid the foundation of his musical and artistic ideas as an original member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The AACM ranks as the most well-known and influential organization of the 1960s under African American leadership that created American experimental music through challenging “racialized limitations on venues ...

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Top 'n' Bottom

By Tab Smith

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Top

124

Article: Album Review

Tab Smith: Top 'n' Bottom

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

Here are twenty–one danceable and gently swinging numbers recorded in 1953–54 by the underrated (and almost forgotten) saxophonist Tab Smith who shows clearly why he was held in such high regard by Count Basie, Lucky Millinder and others for whom he worked as a sideman. Smith, who nimbly straddles Jazz’s swing and contemporary eras, displays a ...

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