From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in 2002. When Hezekiah Leroy Gordon "Stuff" Smith picked up the violin, the house began to rock. The second major popularizer ...
James Sanders will shed some light on two late great violinists when he presents “Dark Angels of the Violin: Jazz Legends Eddie South and Stuff Smith” on March 15. The free virtual presentation by the ...
Featured here in his twilight years, violinist Hezekiah Leroy Gordon "Stuff" Smith was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1909. Before he died in Denmark in 1967, he became one of the jazz world's most ...