• Name: Stuff Smith
• Birthday: 08/14/1909
• Birth Place: Portsmouth, OH
• Died: 09/25/1967
• Decades Active: 1920,1930,1940,1950,1960
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Standards, Swing, Continental Jazz, Jive, Mainstream Jazz, Gypsy
• Moods: Bright, Amiable/Good-Natured, Confident, Energetic, Freewheeling, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Romantic, Warm, Happy, Humorous, Hungry, Organic, Playful, Rambunctious, Reflective, Swaggering, Joyous, Relaxed, Rollicking, Sensual, Silly, Sophisticated, Stylish

Title	Release
Complete 1936-1937 Sessions	03/13/2007
Masters of Jazz	07/11/2006
Storyville Stuff Smith	07/11/2006
Hot Jazz Violin: 1930-1940	07/06/2004
Time and Again W	03/25/2003
Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances	12/2002
The Complete 1944 Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription Duets	12/2002
With the Henri Chaix Trio: Late Woman Blues	03/05/2002
1944-1946 WA	02/15/2000
1939-1944	08/10/1999
Mad Genius of the Violin, Vol. 1	09/23/1997
Onyx Club Spree	04/22/1997
Vol. 1 1936/1944	1997
Smith/Gillespie/Peterson	1994
Hot Violins	03/1965
Cat on a Hot Fiddle	08/07/1959
Sweet Swingin' Stuff	1959
Have Violin, Will Swing	01/21/1957
Stuff Smith-Dizzy Gillespie-Oscar Peterson	01/21/1957
The Stuff Smith Trio: 1943	11/17/1943
Stuff Smith (1936-1939)	02/11/1936

Stuff Smith was one of the big three of pre-bop violinists along with Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli. Many of his fans said that he could outswing all of his competitors, and certainly Stuff was a major force on the bandstand. Smith, who cited Louis Armstrong as his main influence, studied music with his father and played with the family band as a child. His first major job and recordings were with Alphonse Trent's territory band in the 1920s, but it was not until 1936 that he had his breakthrough. Leading a quintet at the Onyx Club with trumpeter Jonah Jones, Smith's comedy vocals and hard-swinging approach made the group a hit on 52nd Street for several years; his novelty "I'se a Muggin'" became a hit. Smith worked regularly with his trios in the 1940s, but was in danger of being forgotten in the '50s when Norman Granz recorded him fairly extensively for Verve; Stuff also participated in Nat King Cole's After Midnight sessions for Capitol. The violinist moved to Copenhagen in 1965 and was active until his death two years later. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide