LC control no. | n 84157889 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Smith, Stuff |
Variant(s) | Smith, Hez Smith, Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Stuff Smith, Le Roy Gordon Smith, Leroy, 1909-1967 |
Birth date | [1909-08-13,1909-08-14] |
Death date | 1967-09-25 |
Place of birth | Portsmouth (Ohio) |
Place of death | Munich (Germany) |
Profession or occupation | Composers Singers Violinists |
Found in | The Black swing tradition [SR] p1980: label (Stuff Smith) His Pure at heart, c1991: t.p. (Stuff Smith) p. 4 of cover (Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Stuff Smith; violinist, singer, composer; b. Aug. 14, 1909 in Portsmouth, Ohio; d. Sept. 25, 1967 in Munich) Grove music online, May 18, 2005: Jazz (Smith, Stuff (Le Roy Gordon; Hez(ekiah)); b. Aug. 13, 1909, Portsmouth, OH, d. Sept. 25, 1967, Munich; American violinist, singer, and composer; "According to his birth certificate he was born on 13 August, but for some reason he celebrated his birthday on the 14th--hence the latter date in many sources. The same certificate spells his forename as Leroy, but later, whenever he signed in full, his preferred form was Le Roy. He was sometimes called Hezekiah or Hez, but this was not a given name.") |