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Stuff Smith

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Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist. [1]

49 relations: A Great Day in Harlem (photograph), Alex Riel, Alphonse Trent, Bebop, Carnival of Swing, Cat on a Hot Fiddle, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Copenhagen, Decca Records, Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions, Deep Purple (Sun Ra album), Denzil Best, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, George Duvivier, Hep Records, If You're a Viper, Jazz, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jimmy Jones (pianist), Joe Venuti, Johnny Letman, Jutland, Kenny Drew, Loren Schoenberg, Louis Armstrong, Michel Warlop, MPS Records, Munich, National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York City, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Onyx Club (New York City), Original Jazz Classics, Oscar Peterson, Portsmouth, Ohio, Randalls and Wards Islands, Savoy Records, Stéphane Grappelli, Storyville Records, Sun Ra, Svend Asmussen, Swing music, Verve Records, Violin, Vocalion Records, William Savory.

A Great Day in Harlem (photograph)

A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a 1958 black-and-white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians photographed in front of a brownstone in Harlem, New York City.

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Alex Riel

Alex Riel (born 13 September 1940) is a Danish jazz and rock drummer.

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Alphonse Trent

Alphonse "Alphonso" Trent (August 24, 1905 – October 14, 1959) was an American jazz pianist and territory band leader.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Carnival of Swing

The Carnival of Swing was a music festival that took place on 29 May 1938 on Randall's Island, New York.

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Cat on a Hot Fiddle

Cat on a Hot Fiddle is a 1960 studio album by Stuff Smith.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions

Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions is a compilation album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring performances recorded in 1951 and 1952 and originally released on Gillepie's own Dee Gee label.

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Deep Purple (Sun Ra album)

Deep Purple (also released as Dreams Come True) is an album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra featuring Stuff Smith on violin.

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Denzil Best

Denzil DaCosta Best (April 27, 1917 – May 24, 1965) was an American jazz percussionist and composer born in New York City.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith

Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and violinist Stuff Smith recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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George Duvivier

George Duvivier (August 17, 1920 – July 11, 1985) was an American jazz double-bass player.

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Hep Records

Hep Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Alastair Robertson in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1974.

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If You're a Viper

"If You're a Viper" (originally released under the title "You'se a Viper", and sometimes titled "If You'se a Viper") is a jazz song composed by Stuff Smith.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Jimmy Jones (pianist)

James Henry Jones (December 30, 1918, Memphis, Tennessee – April 29, 1982, Burbank, California) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.

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Joe Venuti

Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (possibly September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.

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Johnny Letman

Johnny Letman (September 6, 1917 McCormick, South Carolina – July 17, 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland; Jütland), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Cimbricus Chersonesus; Den Kimbriske Halvø; Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.

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Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew (August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993) was an American jazz pianist.

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Loren Schoenberg

Loren Schoenberg (born July 23, 1958) is a tenor saxophonist, conductor, educator, and jazz historian.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Michel Warlop

Michel Maurice Armand Warlop (23 January 1911 – 6 March 1947) was a French classical and jazz violinist professionally active from 1929 to 1947.

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MPS Records

MPS Records was a German jazz record company and label founded in 1968 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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National Jazz Museum in Harlem

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is New York City's museum dedicated to preservation and celebration of Harlem's jazz history.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (27 May 1946 – 19 April 2005), often known as NHØP, was a Danish jazz upright bassist known for his technique and musical approach.

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Onyx Club (New York City)

The Onyx Club was a jazz club located on West 52nd Street in New York City.

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Original Jazz Classics

Original Jazz Classics (or OJC) is a record label that was started in 1983 as an imprint of Fantasy Records.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Portsmouth, Ohio

Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States.

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Randalls and Wards Islands

Randalls Island (also called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Islands, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, "Purchased in 1772 by British Captain James Montresor; sold in 1784 to Johnathan Randel; acquired by City of New York in 1835." separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

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Storyville Records

Storyville Records is an international record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music.

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking".

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Vocalion Records

For Decca's Vocalion label, see Disques Vogue Vocalion Records is an American record company and label active for many years in the U.S. and the U.K.

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William Savory

William Alcott Savory (June 11, 1916 – February 11, 2004), also known as Bill Savory, was an audio engineer known for his extensive private recordings of important jazz musicians in the 1930s, and for his contributions to recording technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_Smith

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