One of the earliest pioneers of jazz music was Willie “The Lion” Smith, a Jewish Black man from New York.
The legendary Duke Ellington called Smith “the greatest influence of all the great jazz piano players who have come along. He has a beat that stays in the mind.” Ellington wrote two songs to tribute Smith: “The Portrait Of The Lion” and “The Second Portrait Of The Lion”.
Smith is also considered one of the inventors of the stride jazz piano genre.
Here is Smith photographed by William P. Gottlieb, in Smith’s apartment in Manhattan, NY., ca. Jan. 1947. The photo was used for the book “The Golden Age of Jazz”, and has been archived by the Library of Congress.
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