Smith, Stuff

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Smith, Stuff
Other forms of name
Smith, Hez
Smith, Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Stuff
Smith, Le Roy Gordon
Smith, Leroy, 1909-1967
Date of birth
1909-08-14
Date of death
1967-09-25
Occupation
Composers
Singers
Violinists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 5119063
Wikidata: Q1397171
Library of congress: n 84157889
Sources of Information
  • 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.")