EDET, EDNA SMITH

EDET, EDNA SMITH. Jazz bassist/College professor (16 January 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts). She received her musical education at the Manhattan School of Music in New York (B. Mus.; M. Mus., 1956) and Columbia University Teachers College in New York (M.A., 1960; D. Mus. Ed., 1961). She began her musical career as a jazz bassist. During the 1940s she played with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm , then later with Viola (Vi) Burnside's Band, and finally with her own Edna...