birth_date: 1893-11-23 00:00:00
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name: Willie "The Lion" Smith
about: William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith - better known as Willie "The Lion" Smith - was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas "Fats" Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre from its Golden Age, c. 1920–1943. William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith - better known as Willie "The Lion" Smith - was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas "Fats" Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre from its Golden Age, c. 1920–1943. ...more
death_date: 1973-04-18 00:00:00