Joe Fox Smith was an American jazz trumpeter.
Smith was born on the June 28, 1902 in Ripley, Ohio. He came from a family of musicians- his father, Luke Smith, Sr. was a bandleader, and six of his brothers also played the trumpet or trombone- Luke, Stanley, Doonie, Charles, and Carpathia. Three of them, one being Russell Smith, went on to play professionally.
Known throughout his childhood as Toots, Smith originally started out as a drummer but was convinced by Ethel Waters that he was far better...
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