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Johnny Smith And Jazz Guitar Improvisation

Article Category: Entertainment

Author Name: Steven Herron

Johnny Smith, one of the most important jazz guitar players of the 1950s and 1960s, is additionally an outstanding performer on viola, trumpet and violin. He was birthed in Birmingham, Alabama on June 25, 1922. A self educated player he mentions Andres Segovia and Django Reinhardt as his major guitar heroes. Johnny Smith, whose dad was a banjoist and a guitar player, initially established an interest in the jazz guitar at the age of 5.

In 1935 Johnny Smith's family transferred to Portland, Maine. At that point in time Johnny was already an outstanding jazz guitar player. He obtained his very first on the job experience in 1939 having fun in a hillbilly band called "The Fenton Brothers". He led his own jazz trio in Boston 1940-41 before joining the US Air Force. Throughout World War 2 he played cornet in the Air Force Band. After leaving the Air Force in 1946 he returned to Portland and played trumpet and jazz guitar for a neighborhood radio station, as well as playing in clubs at night. Career prospects were not plentiful in Portland, so later on that year Johnny Smith relocated to New York city where he came to be an NBC staff musician. For the next 8 years he played both trumpet and jazz guitar and wrote and scored music for the network.

Their musical score and recording of "Moonlight In Vermont" became a jazz classic epitomising the term "cool jazz". One of the best selling jazz recordings of 1952, this record remains as a turning point in jazz guitar history books.

From 1953-57 Johnny Smith successfully led his own group in East Coast jazz clubs and made more than twenty record albums for the Royal Roost recording company. Always thinking about jazz guitar design and building, Smith, after dealing with Guild Guitars for a short while in the 1950s, has had a lengthy association with the Gibson Guitar Company. Their "Johnny Smith Model" guitar has actually been one of their most renowned jazz guitar archtop models since its introduction in 1960.

In 1957 after the abrupt death of his spouse, Johnny Smith chose to settle in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his four year old little girl. Since the early 1960s he has dedicated most of his time to his specialty guitar store in Colorado Springs.

Johnny Smith remains to be thought of as perhaps the greatest pickstyle jazz guitar player that has ever lived. He has perfect pitch in addition to perfect technique and has been called "The John Williams of the archtop jazz guitar". Jazz guitar virtuoso Barney Kessel summed it up effectively when he was quoted as stating "Nobody plays jazz guitar better than Johnny Smith". The majority of other well-known jazz guitar players would certainly concur and Johnny Smith's legendary jazz guitar virtuoso status will probably remain for life!

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