Hairy Larry Rocks
The Daily Shaarli
04/13/26
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear The Gentlemen Of Jazz play a jazz standard.
Phil Smith grew up in Blytheville, Arkansas, and started playing clarinet when he was eight years old. He studied jazz at Memphis State University and at Berklee School of Music.
I’m going to quote JazzMaui.org on this amazing part of Phil Smith’s career.
“In January of 1967, Phil and his fellow horn players from the University of Memphis traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Fame Recording Studio to record with Aretha Franklin and her first of many hits for Atlantic Records. The legendary producers, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd were the hit makers and the album “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You” with other classics “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”, and “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” sold over 19 million copies. Phil Smith played baritone saxophone on the song “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You.”
Phil Smith grew up in Blytheville, Arkansas, and started playing clarinet when he was eight years old. He studied jazz at Memphis State University and at Berklee School of Music.
I’m going to quote JazzMaui.org on this amazing part of Phil Smith’s career.
“In January of 1967, Phil and his fellow horn players from the University of Memphis traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Fame Recording Studio to record with Aretha Franklin and her first of many hits for Atlantic Records. The legendary producers, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd were the hit makers and the album “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You” with other classics “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”, and “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” sold over 19 million copies. Phil Smith played baritone saxophone on the song “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You.”