Jazz Articles about Cecilia Smith

George Coleman, David Larsen, Mary Lou Williams & Cecilia Smith

by Joe Dimino
May 28, 2023

We begin the 804th episode with a vibraphonist Cecilia Smith and music from the Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project. From there, we hear from Mary Lou Williams herself with a live recording from 1936. Throughout this episode, we hear new music from George Coleman, Ben Rosenblum, Walter Smith III and Snarky Puppy. In between, we go old school with Joe Morris and His Orchestra, Curtis Lundy and Jackie Gleason. It all comes to a close with baritone saxophonist David Larsen ...

Cecilia Smith: Chronicle Of A Life Embraced

by Jason Crane
June 26, 2007

Cecilia Smith: Dark Triumph: The Life of Victoria Lancaster Smith

by Michael P. Gladstone
September 27, 2006

For some reason, after listening to Dark Triumph, I am reminded of a 1967 Impulse! album by Oliver Nelson titled Musical Tribute to JFK: The Kennedy Dream. Although it took Nelson several years to compose and record original material to memorialize the Kennedy White House years, his use of soundbites from JFK's speeches, mingled with his own musical works, served to further remember the Kennedy years in the aftermath of the asssassination. What was most striking was Nelson's use of ...

Cecilia Smith: Dark Triumph

by Dan McClenaghan
July 22, 2006

Victoria L. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1931. She was the first black nurse hired in St Charles Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. She served in the Red Cross and the Peace Corps. By the measure of fame and popular recognition, she is an ordinary woman, but by another measure--the real and truthful one--she is an exceptional human being.As an African-American born in her time in history, Victoria L. Smith was the victim of the American soul's ...