SMITH, HENRY

SMITH, HENRY (BUSTER). Jazz saxophonist (24 August 1904 in Aldorf, Texas). His mother was a church pianist and his father played guitar. He played a house organ as a child, then changed to guitar, and finally to clarinet when he was eighteen. His early professional experiences were in 1922 with a quintet in a local nightclub of Dallas, Texas, and with the Voddie White Trio, in which he doubled on the alto saxophone. Thereafter he played with various groups, including the...