Bill Smith
USA
Born: 01 January 1926
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Third Stream, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Not to be confused with another prominent Bill Smith (co-editor of Coda and a notable avant-garde soprano saxophonist), this particular Bill Smith has been associated with Dave Brubeck on and off through the decades. Smith studied at Julliard School and with Darius Milhaud at Mills College. He was part of the Dave Brubeck Octet during 1947-51 (a recording resulted) and was always open to the idea of utilizing ideas from the modern classical music world in jazz. Unlike Brubeck, Smith became a college professor, teaching at USC. However he record...
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- Thelonious Monk (94)
- Dave Brubeck (56)
- Randy Jones (0)
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