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Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers at San Francisco Jazz Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on October 18, 2012
Where
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco Jazz Festival
701 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA
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When
Sat, November 10, 2012
8:00pm
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San Francisco vocalist Lavay Smith brings a touch of the blues to everything she sings. Now, the sensuous chanteuse and her hard-swinging band work their alchemy on a program that explores the real Kansas City sound. As a wide-open town that served as a hub for territory bands crisscrossing the Midwest in the 1930s, Kansas City boasted one of the nation’s formative jazz scenes, eventually giving rise to the famed big bands of Jay McShann and Count Basie. Backed by her evergrooving Skillet Lickers, with some of the Bay Area’s best musicians, Smith interprets the bawdy and uproariously swinging blues made famous by clarion vocalists like Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing...