Lloyd Smith

Woodwind jazz musician and influential instructor

Birth: May 28, 1914?

Death: April 8, 1999

Birthplace: Lexington, KY

Date of Interview: February 24, 1982 (Narrator's Home)

March 10, 1982 (SIUE)

Interviewers: W. Deane Wiley (2/24/82)

Dan Havens(3/10/82)

Tape # Side

Time

Subject

1 a

021-046

Birth, Date & Place; Family; Start in Music

1 a

047-059

Music lessons; violin

1 a

060-102

Move to St. Louis; Parents

1 a

103-126

Interest in saxophone; first lessons

1 a

127-164

hearing Louis Armstrong and other musicians

1 a

165-189

Junior High Band; Summer High School

1 a

190-204

First paying job - high school

1 a

205-230

Professional jobs; Musicians

1 a

231-240

Watermelon Barbecue

1 a

241-315

Joins Musicians union; union troubles

1 a

316-324

First "named" bands; Johnny White Mose Wiley

1 a

325-384

Rube Floyd Band; musicians, pay, hours, traveling

1 a

385-425

Eddie Randle and His Seven Blue Devils

1 a

426-449

Eddie Johnson Band

1 a

450-466

Reading music

1 a

467-476

Eddie Johnson

1 a

477-488

Jeter-Pillars; George Hudson

1 a

498-513

Chicago train excursion

1 a

514-534

Eddie Johnson Band; travel

1 a

535-553

Racial prejudice

1 a

554-589

Dress, pay, means of travel

1 a

590-605

George Hudson Band

1 a

606-648

River boats; Fate Marable Band; New Orleans

1 a

649-674

Blues Singers; other bands

1 a

675-683

Marable as a musician and a leader

1 a

684-703

Charlie Creath; Dewey Jackson

1 a

704-719

Personnel - marriages and bands

1 a

720-750

White musicians and bands

1 b

005-020

George Hudson Band

1 b

021-249

Earl Hines Band - traveling, recording, instruments, pay, Hines as leader, discoverer of talent; band members

1 b

250-279

Leaves Hines; St. Louis - Musicians Club

1 b

280-304

"May Tatum" Beverly White

1 b

305-329

Close Musicians club; work for Colonial Bakery & Union

1 b

330-359

NOT TRANSCRIBED - discuss Jazz Archive and collection

1 b

360-400

St. Louis Symphony; playing now

1 b

401-425

Teaching music; looking at memorabilia

1 b

426-453

Armstrong and other musicians Smith knew

1 b

454-460

Drug use by musicians

1 b

461-499

Mrs. Smith

1 b

500-550

Types of jazz; definition of "Dixieland"

1 b

551-603

Chicago Symphony; Hines now; Effects of depression

1 b

604-639

Prejudice; treatment of black musicians

1 b

640-658

Grandparents; ancestors

1 b

659-713

Best bands, Basie, Lunceford

1 b

714-722

Teaching; Hudson, oral history project

1 b

732-end

Blank

2 a

004-134

First professional job; Rube Floyd

2 a

135-206

Theaters, talking pictures, dances, types of music

2 a

207-286

Eddie Randle Band; instruments, musicians, tunes

2 a

287-348

Jimmy Blanton - influence; Wendell Marshall

2 a

349-381

Randle Band

2 a

382-439

Eddie Johnson Crackerjack Band

2 a

440-484

Jeter-Pillars; George Hudson

2 a

485-545

Crackerjack Band, personnel; Fats Waller

2 a

546-575

Benny Washington, Cab Calloway, Don Stovall

2 a

576-601

Dewey Jackson Band, Riverboats, and New Orleans

2 a

602-629

Singleton Palmer; Jackson as a leader

2 a

630-655

Alphonso Trent; Charlie Creath

2 a

656-688

Hawaiian Social Club excursions to Chicago: Jessie Johnson

2 a

689-723

Ballroom jobs in South; New Orleans, boats

2 a

724-753

Recording, show work; substitute with Ellington

2 b

003-149

Earl Hines as leader

2 b

150-213

West Coast and Canada with Hines

2 b

214-257

Stevens Point, Wisconsin

2 b

258-297

Big stars Smith worked behind, Sinatra, Harry James, etc.

2 b

298-331

Detroit, Graystone Ballroom, Jean Goldkette

2 b

332-353

Recording with Hines, Hines as discoverer of talent

2 b

354-417

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie; Drugs in music Business

2 b

418-431

Female musicians

2 b

432-479

Wilbur Kirk; evaluation of drummers

2 b

480-499

Various instruments with Hines; Gillespie; Clark Terry

2 b

500-540

Ellington band

2 b

541-589

Lunceford, Basie Kenton - changes in big bands

2 b

590-670

St. Louis Bands; Cecil Scott, Fate Marable

2 b

671-709

Music heard as a youngster

2 b

710-722

Lessons, training, practicing, other bands

2 b

723-750

Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Rochelle, Lucky Millender

3 a

012-052

New York City; comparison of musicians

3 a

053-089

Theater Acts

3 a

090-130

Havens with Buck & Bubbles (actually Butterbeans & Susie)

3 a

131-204

Lena Horne, other singers

3 a

205-277

Leaving Hines band; Starting Musicians Club

3 a

278-301

Gas Light Square, G Clef Club

3 a

302-330

Leaving Hines Band, other musicians

3 a

331-354

Effects of formal education on musicians

3 a

355-370

Smith's music collection and equipment

3 a

371-408

Mixed bands; prejudice

3 a

409-500

Gangsters, prostitutes

3 a

501-547

"May Tatum", Beverly White

3 a

548-559

Teddy Wilson; "carving sessions"

3 a

560-624

Musicians unions

3 a

625-659

Black - white relations; Prejudice

3 a

660-712

Movie work with Hines ; arrangements, musicians

3 a

713-740

Arranging, demise of shows and vaudeville

3 a

741-749

Louis Jordan

3 b

002-039

Ahmad Jamal. stage names, nicknames

3 b

040-089

King Cole

3 b

090-151

Types of instruments, sound

3 b

152-186

Young musicians

3 b

187-216

NOT TRANSCRIBED

3 b

217-424

Music training, environment, college programs, teaching of music

3 b

425-506

Earl Warren, Trummy Young, various clarinet players