Latest Release
- 14 SEPT 2023
- 11 Songs
- 1944-1949 · 2001
- 100 Piano Jazz & Blues Classics · 1999
- The Legendary Music of Sidney Bechet, Stan Kenton, Lionel Hampton, Barney Kessel and Other Hits, Vol. 5 (150 songs) · 2013
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- Nagasaki · 2023
- 2023
- 2016
- 2016
- 2013
- 2008
Artist Playlists
- The piano-pumping Harlem hero who helped invent stride.
Live Albums
Compilations
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2016
About Willie "The Lion" Smith
Performing from the 1910s through the 1960s, Willie "The Lion" Smith was one of the great Harlem stride pianists, a contemporary of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, and a man who understood the importance of style. An irrepressible raconteur, he delivered his pianistic and personal charms in worldwide performance until well into his late 60s.
- HOMETOWN
- Goshen, NY, United States
- BORN
- 23 November 1893
- GENRE
- Jazz