Jeffery Smith is a baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 vocal recording artist, perhaps best known for his albums on Verve

Verve Records

Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...

, among them his distinctive debut release produced by Shirley Horn

Shirley Horn

Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist.-Biography:Encouraged by her grandmother, who was an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. At twelve, Horn studied piano and composition at Howard University and later majored from there in classical music...

, and his self-produced records, including Down Here Below and A Little Sweeter, which was praised in a full page review in TIME

Time

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 as being "the most vital album of the year".

Jeffery Smith's musical career includes two world tours and four albums with the Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...

 Big Band, performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center

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 with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

 and LCJ Orchestra, in tribute to Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

, and collaborations with a wide variety of artists such as Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a...

, Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...

, Regina Carter

Regina Carter

Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...

, Joe Lovano

Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...

, Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

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 and TK Blue. Smith is also the founder and director of Tri-Loxodonta Productions, a not-for-profit music organization cultivating jazz in upstate New York. He is currently preparing for his new CD, Change, tentatively scheduled for release at the end of 2009.

Discography

• 1992: "Victory Tour, W/ Claude Bolling Big Band (Milan)
• 1993: "Candlelight Dreams" W/Claude Bolling Big Band, for his Majesty The King of Thailand (Milan)
• 1994: "Cinema Dreams",W/Claude Bolling Big Band(Milan)
• 1995: "Ramona"(Gitane/Verve)
• 1997: A Drum Is A Woman" W/Claude Bolling Big Band (Milan) "
• 1998: A Little Sweeter (Verve)
• 1999: Down Here Below (Verve)
• 2000: "V", W/United Future Origanization (Guest artist, performing "Listen Love")
• 2001: "Secrets of Ellington" (34th Street Records)
• 2002: "Jazz For Lonliness Jazz Masters Compilation" (Verve - Korea)
• 2003: "Omen ~ The Male Jazz Vocal Masters Compilation" (Verve -Spain)
• 2003: "The Onion Field" W/The Hippienuts (Indie)
• 2004: "Autumn Leaves ~ Male Jazz Vocal Masters Compilation" (Verve-Portugal)
• 2009: "The Kings Of Jazz" Compilation(Jazznova)