Poster. Purple background. On the right is a black and white photo of jazz great Willie Smith, sitting at his piano puffing on his cigar. Top text: Willie Smith was a 1920s Jewish Jazz legend. Smaller text explains Smit's father was Jewish, his mother a black laundress who had a Jewish client who invited him to sit in on Hebrew lessons Saturday mornings. He had a bar mitzvah and as an adult sang as a Jewish Cantor for a Black Jewish congregation in Harlem, NYC. He introduced Jewish music to his black fellow musicians.
Via @henmazzig.bsky.social for Black History month...
Listen to stride pianist legend Willie Smith here: youtu.be/vOmVFr5_v0Y?...
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