Lonnie Smith (jazz musician)
Dr. Lonnie Smith (actually, Lonnie Smith, born July 3, 1942 in Lackawanna, New York) is an American jazz organist.
Life
Early Lonnie Smith came in touch with music and began to play the trumpet. He sang continue with vocal groups such as the Teen Kings. He began quite by accident at the age of 20 years playing the Hammond organ. His unorthodox, ajar to R & B style quickly made him known regionally. When he moved to New York City, he met George Benson know and founded by him in 1966, the George Benson Quartet. Subsequently, Smith developed a solo career and took more than 30 albums under his own name. Here, with him playing musician Lee Morgan, David " Fat Head " Newman, King Curtis, George Adams, Bennie Maupin, Blue Mitchell and Joe Lovano.
Smith has performed at major jazz festivals with Dizzy Gillespie, Grover Washington Jr., Lou Donaldson, Frank Foster, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Scott, Ron Carter and Leon Thomas. He was also with artists from the R & B and disco sector on the stage like Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Etta James, Esther Phillips, Joan Cartwright, the Impressions and the Coasters. Having been in the 80s subsided the disco wave, Smith moved to South Florida, where he performed with local musicians. Through the Acid Jazz wave awoke an interest in his music; he began again with their own groups (and with John Abercrombie and Marvin Smitty Smith and Lou Donaldson ), but played for recordings with soul-jazz projects such as "Jazz Funk Masters ", " Chartbusters ", " Secret Agent Men" and the " Essence Allstars ". Furthermore, he took "Organic Grooves" with Joey DeFrancesco, Kenny Garrett and Lenny White on.
" Dr. Lonnie Smith "is a stage name. The "doctor" was Smith allegedly by his fellow musicians for his virtuoso skills on the organ. He answers the question, why it occurs with the title "doctor" ( and also why he always wears a turban during his appearance ): " no particular reason" (engl. " no particular reason ").