Crickett Smith
William "Crickett" Smith (* 1881 or 1883; † after 1944) was an American jazz trumpeter who worked in India in his later years .
Live and act
Smith came from a musical family; his uncle Arthur Briggs was also a trumpeter. At the beginning of his career he worked at Ziegfeld Follies ; in the early 1910s he played in Jim Europe's Society Orchestra , with which the first recordings for Victor Records were made in 1913 . In the following years he worked in New York a. a. with Ford Dabney (1917) and Wilbur Sweatman 's Original Jass Band (1918) before moving to Paris, where he performed with Louis Mitchell Jazz Kings (1922) at Casino de Paris and in 1931 with Notte and His Creole Band (De La Coupole de Montparnasse) played. He then moved to India with the Leon Abbey Orchestra , where he continued to live and work at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay.
In 1936 and 1944 he made recordings under his own name ( Crickett Smith and His Symphonians ). a. other American musicians working in India such as George Leonardi , Rudy Jackson , Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford , Sterling Conaway , Luis Pedroso and the singer Creighton Thompson participated. Tom Lord recorded 39 recording sessions for him between 1913 and 1936 in the field of jazz .
Web links
- Crickett Smith at Allmusic (English)
- Crickett Smith at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jazz Planet , edited by E. Taylor Atkins. 2003, p. 61
- ↑ Crickett Smith at Red Hot Jazz
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 30, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Crickett |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1881 or 1883 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1944 |