Clarinetists · 1926–2020

Bill Smith

Jazz musician and composer from the United States

Born: 22 September 1926
Sacramento
Died: 29 February 2020
Seattle
Country: United States

Biography

Bill Smith was a jazz musician who played clarinet. Bill Smith was born on 22 September 1926 in Sacramento and died on 29 February 2020 in Seattle. The music is usually filed under jazz. Honours include Arts and Letters Award in Music (1972), Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.

William Overton Smith (September 22, 1926 – February 29, 2020) was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith.

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