Jabbo Smith
Jabbo Smith
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Find out about the life of Jabbo Smith
Go to the Red Hot Jazz Website for an in depth account of Jabbo's life.
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Watch Jabbo performing in later life These links will take you to You Tube.
Love Here Jabbo sings his own composition with the French band 'Hot Antic'. 'Hot Antic', lead by cornet player Michel Bastide, modelled themselves on Jabbo's 1929 band - a good 30 years ahead of Dave! This recording was made at a concert in 1982.
Little Willie Blues Here Jabbo plays another of his own compositions at the same concert with 'Hot Antic'.
Original Dixieland One Step Jabbo Smith's band at the 1979 Juan les Pines Festival in France with Danny Barker (guitar), Frog Joseph (trombone), Lars Edegram (piano) and Orange Kellin (clarinet) and John Robichaux (drums).
Love This is another recording made at the same concert in 1979.
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Where Jabbo's Musical Career Started
The Jenkins Orphanage Band This is rare footage from a 1928 Fox Movietone is of the Jenkin's Orphange Band in South Carolina. Jabbo lived there for ten years from 1914 (when he was 6) until about 1924 (when he was 16). This is where he received his musical training.
The Jenkins Orphanage Band This clip has the same soundtack as the one above but there are fascinating still pictures as well - including Jabbo.
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