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Joe Smith

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Born in Ripley, OH, the brother of trumpeter Russell Smith. He played with small groups in St. Louis, MO then went to New York City in 1920. There he joined Kaiser Marshall's band, and accompanied Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith (whose favorite trumpet player he was) and Mamie Smith in 1922 and 1923. In 1924, he led a group backing Noble Sissie and Eubie Blake, and played off and on with Fletcher Henderson from 1925 to 1928. After playing briefly with Bennie Moten, he played intermittently with McKinney's Cotton Pickers from 1929 to 1934. In the early '30s his health started to fail and he worked infrequently, spending the last four years of his life in a Long Island, NY hospital

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Paralleli

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Paralleli; Amulet; Super Chon Goes off to work; Traum view; Greta Knows; Invisible Parasites; Greta Sails.

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
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Gin & Moonlight

Label: Cuttin' Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: St. Louis Blues; Where’s Gary; Moonglow; They Raided The Joint; Home Stretch; Pourin’ My Heart Out; Mirage; Anything For You; A Moonless Night; Blues And Sentimental; Lullaby Of The Leaves; I’ll Be Seeing You.

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Article: Album Review

Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles: Gin & Moonlight

Read "Gin & Moonlight" reviewed by James Nadal


Long before jazz became a spectator event, it was dance music. The big bands that played swing made their reputations on being able to flood the floor with dancers. Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles are on a mission to bring back those days, and Gin & Moonlight has them on the right track. Formed in ...

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Article: Interview

Billy Vera: Still In The Game

Read "Billy Vera: Still In The Game" reviewed by Scott Mitchell


It might be safe to say that a lot of people may know a little bit about Billy Vera but only a few people know a lot about Billy Vera. Billy is a singer, writer, producer, actor, Grammy winner, and music historian. He has performed with big bands, Billy And The Beaters, solo, and everything in ...

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Article: Under the Radar

Don Redman: Setting the Template

Read "Don Redman: Setting the Template" reviewed by Jim Gerard


As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...

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Music Needs You

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Winter Melt; Thinning Air; Music Needs You; The Quiet Space Left Behind; Barceloneta; Liberty; You Can Talk During This; Wrong Turns; Tired House.

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Melodic Workshop

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Shroo; Rebel; Sasa Sings; Gulp; Sassy; Y (No Tengo Dinero); Long; Sad

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Article: Album Review

Joe Smith: Melodic Workshop

Read "Melodic Workshop" reviewed by Andrew Rowan


Joe Smith's Melodic Workshop begins with a joyful piano-bass-drum fanfare that leads to a long-lined theme, motored by an almost martial drumbeat. “Shroo" is grand and generous in its scope. Jazz to be sure, but not the traditional kind. Free of more conventional metric considerations, the musicians make the most of the occasion to improvise thematically. ...


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