Johnny Smith / Джонни Смит

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Smith was a precociously talented musician who learned to play guitar as a pre-teen while hanging around in local pawnshops. His all-round versatility (he toured with a hillbilly band before gravitating towards jazz and could play anything from swing and bebop to avant-garde classical music) meant that he was much in demand. Smith was also a noted composer: his classic 1954 song “Walk, Don’t Run” became an instrumental standard and was a hit for Chet Atkins and later, in 1964, The Ventures.

The Sound Of The Johnny Smith Guitar

Jimmy Smith "Standards"

Jazz Alliance

Excite Quintet

Павел Илюшин

Игорь Тимофеев

Анастасия Воровей

Валерий Евланов

Elmer Snowden / Элмер Сноуден

Bacchus Jazz Quartet

Mike Stern / Майк Стерн