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Henry Franklin `` Buster '' Smith ( August 24 , 1904 – August 10 , 1991 ) , also known as
professor Smith , was an American jazz contralto saxophonist and wise man to Charlie
Dorothy Rothschild Parker .Adam Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas
saxophone Sound with count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s .Smith played sax for a
number of prominent stripe leaders including Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington and Earl
Hines as well as vocalist Ella Edward Fitzgerald .He recorded his sole record album as
leader in 1959 and despite intending to put down a follow-up , he was injured in an fortuity
and nil else was released .== life == === Early life === David Smith was born and raised in
Alsdorf , Texas , a diminished township near Telico in the outskirts of Dallas , where he
attended school as a shaver .David Roland Smith earned the name `` bronco buster '' from
his parents as a baby , as he was born as an corpulence child .Buster was the one-third of
five boys and had no baby , though both of his old blood brother died in childhood of
morbilli .Smith 's early musical influences were his mother , and his sire , who played
guitar .At the historic period of four years , baby buster was playing the electric organ with
his blood brother , pianist Beantown Smith ; Buster played the keys and Bean Town stepped
on the pedal point .Soon thereafter , his grandfather gave away the menage Hammond
organ because he believed it would only manoeuver dude to a life of sin .=== early vocation
=== In 1919 , Smith picked cotton wool for a week to take in himself the money to grease
one's palms a $ 3.50 clarinet .David Smith learned to play respective instruments by the
meter he was eighteen twelvemonth sure-enough .In 1922 , David Roland Smith and his
family moved to Dallas .He joined the Voodie White person III , playing contralto saxophone
and clarinet .In 1923 , he began his professional person music life history playing alto
saxophone with the medicine shows , though he had to diddle very loudly to line in More
customer .This experience led to Smith defining his possess musical expressive style ,
known for being loud .The clock time with the medicine shows also led to Oran `` Hot sass ''
Sir Frederick Handley Page inviting Ian Smith to link up his group , the Oklahoma City Blue
Devils , in 1925 .Over the next few years , David Smith wrote much of the group 's medicine ,
learning from banjo player Johnny Clark , writing lyrics with co-workers from the coin bank
that he worked in .=== flower success === When Julia Evelina Smith joined the Blue Devils ,
the line-up consisted of Bruno Walter Page , Oran Page , Lester Brigham Young ,
enumeration Basie , jimmy Rushing , and Emir `` Bucket '' Coleman .They toured the Kansas
City country and the Midwest , playing jazz for a twelvemonth , bringing all of its penis into
protrusion .Basie and page both left the group ; however Julia Evelina Smith decided to stay
on , though this was very short lived and soon after he left also .After leaving the group , he
and Basie formed the fellow Smith-Count Basie Band of Rhythm , where the two innovated a
meretricious style of Jazz .bronco buster 's contribution to the singular audio was by using a
tenor voice sax reed in his alto saxophone to accomplish a louder , `` fatter '' sound .Lester
Whitney Young also joined the stria and , to complement Smith 's louder auditory
sensation , he also opted for a intemperate Reed , using a baritone horn saxophone John
Reed on his tenor voice saxophone .This auditory sensation was later labelled the Texas Sax
Sound .Kate Smith gained a great amount of influence in the Texan medicine residential
district and industry .John Smith mentored legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker during the
1930s , developing a `` father-son relationship '' through mentoring Charlie Parker .In 1941 ,
smith decided to return to Dallas and to quit touring , though he remained active in the local
music panorama .In the following old age , he wrote for jazz and blue devil bands , played
often , and taught many untested Texan musicians , including Aaron `` T-Bone '' John Walker
and Red florilegium among others .He also performed academic term oeuvre with creative
person such as Pete Johnson 's Boogie-Woogie male child , Eddie Durham , Leo the Lion ``
cut '' Mosley , Bon and His Buddies , and the Don Redman Orchestra .=== Solo career === In
1959 , bronco buster led his first solo recording session in fort Worth , as prompted by
Atlantic criminal record .From these sessions , released by Atlantic with the deed The
Legendary broncobuster Joseph Smith , Ian Douglas Smith 's noted strain included `` Kaw
River City Riff , '' `` Buster 's strain , '' `` e apartment boogie-woogie , '' and Kurt Weill 's ``
September Song . ''For the session , baby buster enlisted his brother Boston Kate Smith to
play piano , along with instrumentalist spanning his career to date .=== Later animation ===
In the sixties , Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was involved in an auto accident , in which he was
injured and no longer able to make for the sax .In ordering to continue playing medicine , he
started to play the sea bass guitar throughout Dallas and continued to participate in the
Dallas musical community of interests .baby buster led a dance euphony dance band until
1980 , and played in the fabled Revelations in the mid-1980s .Smith died in Dallas on August
10 , 1991 , of a essence attack .== Discography == The Legendary fellow Smith , Atlantic
Ocean Records , 1959 ( Reissued by Robert Koch Records , 1999 ) == References == ===
Further reading === World Health Organization 's Who of Jazz : Storyville to golf shot Street
by whoremaster Chilton ( starting time published 1970 ) .Biographical dictionary of Afro-
American and African Musicians by Eileen Southern ( First variant 1982 ) .Kansas city
nothingness : From Ragtime to bop - A account by Frank Driggs & Chuck Haddix ( first base
published oxford 2005 ; ISBN 0-19-530712-7 , Page 165 ) .=== Footnotes ===

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