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[email protected] Chicago native, Mike Smith first became enthralled with jazz as an eleven-year-old begining band student. And his dedication to the art form was so great that eight years later he won the coveted Charlie Parker Scholarship to North Texas State University. There Mike earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance.Mike has performed and recorded with many jazz greats, including Nat Adderley, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Tony Bennett, Jimmy Heath, Natalie Cole, Diane Schuur, Kurt Elling, Nancy Wilson and Frank Sinatra. He is featured as lead altoist on the Harry Connick,Jr. album Come By Me on CBS Sony.After spending time with the bands of Maynard Ferguson and Buddy Rich, Mike joined Frank Sinatra's core band as lead altoist and music contractor. His stint with Sinatra included television performances and CD recordings. Tours (with performances in Japan, Australia, South America, Europe,and the U.S.) Those years on the road inspired Mike's third recording for Delmark Records, The Traveler. Mike has continued on as the lead altoist for Frank Sinatra Jr., touring Europe and the United States.In his travels Mike has done numerous radio interviews featured on jazz stations
nationwide.The Mike Smith Quintet has opened the Chicago Jazz Festival, and Mike is a recipient of the Cannonball Adderley Award for Oustanding Alto Saxophonist in Jazz and a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts award. He has received critical acclaim for his album, Sinatra Songbook, which features liner notes by Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Jr. Mike has performed as a guest soloist and lecturer, giving master classes and concerts at the Eastman School of Music, the University of North Texas, the Berklee School of Music, Pepperdine University, the University of Miami, Rutgers and the University of Colorado, Boulder, to name a few. Mike has also performed with the Navy and Air Force bands in Washington, D.C.Mike is an artist for the Schreiber & Keilwerth instrument company,performing on Keilwerth saxophones. With Keilwerth he is involved with marketing, design, product packaging and artist relations. Mike is also an endorser for Rico Reeds. He has has toured world wide for these companies. He is currently active in the Chicago recording scene, doing national spots for radio and television, Professor of Saxophone at the Chicago College of the performing Arts at Roosevelt University and performing with his group, the Mike Smith Quintet.
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