Carrie Smith

Carrie Smith, May 1977

Carrie Louise Smith (born August 25, 1941 in Fort Gaines , Georgia , † May 20, 2012 in Newark (New Jersey) ) was an American jazz and blues singer .

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Smith sang in her father's church in Newark as a child and performed with their gospel choir at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival . In 1970 she began a career as a professional singer with the blues pianist Big Tiny Little ; She then went on tour with Tyree Glenn in 1973 and recorded the album "Satchmo Remembered" in 1974 with Dick Hyman at Carnegie Hall . She toured Europe several times with the New York Jazz Repertory Company and then with The World's Greatest Jazz Band . Art Farmer and Budd Johnson performed on their album "Carrie Smith" (1978) . She continued to work with Ram Ramirez , Sweets Edison , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Jay McShann, and time and again with Yank Lawson . She played in the Broadway musical Black and Blue from 1989 to 1991 . In 1992, pianist Marcus Roberts placed them at the center of his homage to Bessie Smith . She also performed with her own gospel choirs.

Confessin 'the Blues (Evidence Records, 1976)
Do Your Duty (Classic Jazz, 1976)
Fine and Mellow (Audiophile Records, 1976)
Nobody Wants You (Black & Blue Records, 1977)
When You're Down and Out (Black & Blue, 1977)
Carrie Smith (West 54 Records, 1978)
78 Your Collection Add Carrie Smith
Sings the Blues and Then Some: Carrie Smith Featuring Billy Butterfield , Charlie Bornemann (1982), with Dick Wellstood , Paul Wingo
Every Now and Then (Silver Shadow Records, 1993)
I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues (IPO Records, 2002)

Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Smith, Carrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Smith, Carrie Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz and blues singer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort Gaines , Clay County (Georgia)
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 2012
Place of death	Newark (New Jersey)