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Bill Smith

Jazz musician and composer from the United States · United States · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1926 to 2020 · aged 93

William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s.

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Arts and Letters Award in Music1972
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize

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Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith.

Country
United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 2020 · aged 93

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