Marvin Smith


Marvin "Smitty" Smith is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musical training at the age of three. After graduating from Waukegan East High School, Smith attended Berklee,, graduating in 1981. Smith has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums. He also has toured with Sting, Dave Holland, Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and with Steve Coleman. He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet, and was the drummer for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band, led by Kevin Eubanks, from January 30, 1995 to the show's end on May 29, 2009. Smith was also the drummer for the Jay Leno Show band in 2009-2010.

Discography

As leader

With Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison
With Hamiet Bluiett
With Joanne Brackeen
With Igor Butman
  • Falling Out
With Donald Byrd
With Don Byron
With Steve Coleman and M-Base
With Larry Coryell
With Ray Drummond
With Robin Eubanks
With Art Farmer
With Frank Foster and Frank Wess
With Benny Golson
With Gunter Hampel New York Orchestra
With John Hicks
  • Beyond Expectations
With Dave Holland
With Andy Jaffe
With the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet
  • Back to the City
  • Real Time
With Carmen Lundy
  • Jazz & the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid
With Buddy Montgomery
  • Ties of Love
With Ralph Moore
  • Rejuvenate!
With David Murray
  • Children
With David "Fathead" Newman
With Joe Newman and Joe Wilder
  • Hangin' Out
With Emily Remler
  • East To Wes
With Sonny Rollins
  • Sonny Rollins Plays G-Man and Other Music for the Soundtrack of the Robert Mugge Film "Saxophone Colossus"
With Michel Sardaby
  • Going Places
With Archie Shepp
With Superblue
  • Superblue 2
With Harvie Swartz, Mick Goodrick, and John Abercrombie
  • Arrival
With McCoy Tyner
  • Prelude and Sonata
With Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers, and Bob Stewart
  • Suite Noire
With Bobby Watson'