EP48: Kevin Smith: Bassist Extraordinaire

Where you find great jazz in Atlanta, there’s a good chance you’ll find Kevin Smith on bass. The Florida State grad became enamored with the instrument early in life, chose in fact, orchestra over band in school because the orchestra had a bass, then became enamored with jazz, hearing it for the first time in person from a group that included Music Life and Times podcast co-host Kevin Bales. An educated player who reads as well as he improvises, Kevin is as comfortable with a classical score as he is on stage with a makeshift jazz combo. As a teacher, he is intimately involved with the Atlanta Music Project, a program of the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs providing world-class music training to youngsters in under-resourced communities.