Ralph Lamar Smith

71, Male

Pittsburgh, PA

United States

Profile Information:

Favorite website
http://Ebay
Favorite blog
http://You tube
Pittsburgh Connection
Schenley Grad
Favorite Pittsburgh musicians/performers
Schenley Grads...Eric johnson, Jack Turner, Tubby Daniels to name a few.
Favorite Jazz Radio or media station
90.5
Favorite Pittsburgh Jazz Venue
Backstage
About Me:
Father of 6. I have enjoyed jazz since the age of 10. I dream music that some day i hope to play. I am trying to teach myself piano, guitar and woodwinds
Artist or Fan
fan, student

Comment Wall:

  • Dr. Nelson Harrison

    Welcome Ralph,

    Someone with a lifelong love for jazz will certainly feel at home here among others of like mind. You never get too old to learn how to play an instrument and we encourage you to continue your pursuit. Your enjoyment will only increase with each step. Thank you fro joining and please add me as a friend.

    Jun 19, 2009

  • Kevin Hurst, Sr.

    Had a great time playing with you and my brother Dan at PD's. Hope to do it again soon. I am not an expert and one can only be more or less expert. I 'll stick to blowing the horns, every thing else is done for the ears (or senses)! - kev

    Jun 1, 2010

  • Kevin Hurst, Sr.

    Oh big RESPECT to the Sharp mind! The man who wrote Amazing grace captained cargo ships which carried SLAVES and had a conversion. Realizing his complicity he wrote the hymn and used their scales he heard those suffering souls used over and over. He did not 'rip' the slaves off but immortalized their experience! Stephen Foster heard African -American church music in Pittsburgh and only went down south and heard slaves once. He sold 'Oh Susanna', 'Comin' Round The Mountain', 'Jeannie With The Light Brown ' etc. for hundreds and others made thousands. The U.S. patent office was not up and running,neither ripped off black culture but helped others hear it!. Thanx for remembering my Uncle Ditty, Art Davis, John Brown, etc. all Harrisburg masters. Bobby Selvey is a wonderful person I met as an adult but I grew up next to his father who was old enough to be my grandfather! My dad's (from Elmira N. Y.) grandfather was Lionel Hampton's chauffeur, gotta play with you and talk again!- kevin hurst

    Jun 2, 2010