Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)

Bill Smith (jazz musician)

American clarinetist and composer (1926–2020)

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…