Pianist Jimmy Smith

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Jimmy Smith

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 8-12-1925 (99 years old)

Population of US 1925: 115,829,000

Global rank: #64251

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Pianist Jimmy Smith profile

Who is Pianist Jimmy Smith?
Best known for his work on the Hammond B-3 electric organ, this 20th-century jazz musician and frontman of The Jimmy Smith Trio recorded more than a hundred albums, many of them Billboard charted, and is a recipient of 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, award.
His first Blue Note album, A New Sound... A New Star... Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 1, was released in 1956, but it was also a 1956 recording, The Champ, which he launched into stardom.
 
 

Young / Before famous

A self-taught pianist, he won a boogie-woogie piano competition sponsored by a Philadelphia radio station when he was just nine years old. He later studied at both the Royal Hamilton College of Music and the Ornstein Leo of Music.

Family life info

He spent his childhood in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and later lived in California and Arizona. His marriage to Lola Smith produced children named Jimmy, Jia, and Connie.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Pianist Jimmy Smith?
Smith contributed to the Grammy Award-winning 1983 singer James Ingram's album It's Your Night.

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Summary of Jimmy Smith profile

When was Pianist Jimmy Smith born?
Jimmy Smith birthday 8-12-1925 (at the age of 99).
Where is Pianist Jimmy Smith's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jimmy Smith was born in Pennsylvania, . is a Pianist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Jimmy Smith's global rank is 64251 and whose rank is 232 in list of famous Pianist. Population of US in 1925 is about 115,829,000 persons.
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Events in 1925 and 8-12

Events in US in the birth year of Jimmy Smith

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
  • Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
  • Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
  • Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Birthday Jimmy Smith (8-12) in history

  • Day 8-12 year 1854: Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
  • Day 8-12 year 1886: The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Day 8-12 year 1941: Congress declared war on Japan and the U.S. entered World War II.
  • Day 8-12 year 1949: Communist attacks forced the Chinese Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
  • Day 8-12 year 1978: Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died.
  • Day 8-12 year 1980: John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.
  • Day 8-12 year 1987: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
  • Day 8-12 year 1993: President Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.
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