United States, Jazz Musician
November 23,
1893 – April, 18, 1973.
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith , also known as "The Lion", 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 in its golden age, from about 1920 to 1943.
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