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Buster Smith

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Also known as Henry Smith

Jazz alto saxophonist (1904-1991)

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  • Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World
  • American Secularism

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1969-08-06
Active to
2003-10-21
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Henry "Buster" Smith (August 24, 1904 – August 10, 1991), also known as Professor Smith, was an American jazz alto saxophonist. Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas Sax Sound with Count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s and he was also a mentor to Charlie Parker. Smith played saxophone for a range of musicians including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines, though in his career he only recorded one solo album in 1959. Despite intending to release a follow-up in the 1960s

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date of birth
1904-08-24
date of death
1991-08-10
start of work period
1923-00-00
pseudonym
Профессор
name in native language
Buster Smith
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