Jimmie Smith

James Howard Smith (born January 27, 1938) is an American jazz drummer.
The cousin of Larry Young, Smith was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the Al Germansky School for Drummers from 1951 to 1954 and the Juilliard School in 1959 and 1960.
Smith began his professional career in New York City around 1960.
In the 1960s, he played with Jimmy Forrest (1960), Larry Young (1960–62), Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (1962–63), Pony Poindexter (1963), Jimmy Witherspoon (1963), Gildo... meer