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Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith by William P. Gottlieb
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Birth name
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith
Born
(1909-08-14)August 14, 1909 Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist.[1] He is well known for the song "If You're a Viper" (the original title was "You'se a Viper").
Smith was, along with Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Warlop, Svend Asmussen, Ray Nance and Joe Venuti, one of jazz music's preeminent violinists of the swing era.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. p. 407. ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
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performed as a journeyman musician with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, StuffSmith, Charlie Christian, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole and...
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and violinist StuffSmith, both preeminent musicians. There are no known recordings of this trio, but a home recording of a Blount-Smith duet from 1953...
South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; StuffSmith; and Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Joe Venuti was popular for his work with...
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reefer, left-handed cigarette. Stuff 1) Jive, muggles, reefer. 2) Nickname for famous viper, jazz fiddler, "Stuff" Smith, famous composer of viper songs...
Spurr – bass guitar Elena Poulou – keyboards; lead vocal on "The Wright Stuff" Orpheo McCord – drums, vocals Additional personnel Peter Greenway – rhythm...
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