Cliff Smalls The Man I Love (360p)

Cliff Smalls (3 March 1918 – 2008) was an American jazz trombonist, pianist, conductor and arranger who worked in the jazz, soul and rhythm & blues genres. His career coincided with the early years of bebop. From 1942 to 1946 he was a trombonist, arranger and also backup piano-player for band-leader and pianist Earl Hines, alongside Dizzie Gillespie and Charlie Parker, also then in the Hines band which often broadcast seven nights a week on open mikes coast-to-coast across America. Hines also used Teddy Wilson, Jess Stacy and Nat “King“ Cole as backup piano-players but Smalls was his favorite. Smalls also played in the Jimmie Lunceford and Erskine Hawkins bands. #CliffSmalls #Jazz #Jazzpiano #Jazztrombone #soul #RandB #Marchjazz #conductor #arranger #March3 #Jazzсalendar #Jazzhistory #Jazzlover