Cliff Smalls

Clifton Arnold (3 March 1918 – 2008), better known as Cliff Smalls, Feather, Leonard and Ira Gitler. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz was an American jazz trombonist, pianist, conductor and arranger who worked in the jazz, soul and rhythm & blues genres.Jazz Initiative "Smalls, 'Cliff' Clifton"Chadbourne, Eugene Allmusic biography
Smalls was raised in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, a carpenter, performed piano and organ for Charleston's Central Baptist Church. He taught Smalls classical... plus