1926
Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)
Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)
Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)
Bill Smith (jazz musician)
American clarinetist and composer (1926–2020)
- Born
- 1926
William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith.