Joe Smith
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American jazz trumpeter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joe "Fox" Smith was an American jazz trumpeter. Career Known throughout his childhood as "Toots", Smith originally started as a drummer but was convinced by Ethel Waters that he was far better as a trumpet player. It has been said that when he reached New York in 1920 he already had a fully formed style, which achieved "the vocalized sound, the blues spirit and the swing which makes for convincing jazz performance".
