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Marvin "Smitty" Smith (born June 24, 1961) is an American jazz drummer and composer.

Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musical training at the age of three.^[1] After graduating from Waukegan East High School, Smith attended College of Lake County from 1983 to 1985 as a member of their Jazz Ensemble after graduating class of 1981 Berklee,^[2] has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums.^[3] He also has toured with Sting, Dave Holland, Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and with Steve Coleman.^[3] He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet,^[1] and drummer under fellow Berklee alum and Musical Director Kevin Eubanks, for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from January 30, 1995^[3] to the show's end on May 29, 2009 and the start of the second incarnation, The Jay Leno Show, March 1, 2010.

Discography

As leader

• 
  Keeper of the Drums (Concord Jazz, 1987)


• 
  The Road Less Traveled (Concord Jazz, 1989)

As sideman

With Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison

• New York Second Line (The George Wein Collection)

With Hamiet Bluiett

• 
  Ebu (Soul Note, 1984)

With Joanne Brackeen

• 
  Turnaround (Evidence, 1992)

With Igor Butman

• Falling Out (Impromptu, 1993)

With Donald Byrd

• 
  Harlem Blues (Landmark, 1987)

With Don Byron

• 
  No-vibe Zone (Knitting Factory Works, 1996)

With Steve Coleman and M-Base

• Steve Coleman Group: Motherland Pulse (JMT, 1985)


• Five Elements – On the Edge of Tomorrow (JMT, 1986)


• Five Elements – Sine Die (Pangaea, 1987)


• Strata Institute (Double Trio with Greg Osby): Cipher Syntax (JMT, 1989)


• Five Elements – Rhythm People (Novus/BMG, 1990)


• Strata Institute: Transmigration (Rebel-X/Columbia, 1991)


• Five Elements – Black Science (Novus, 1991)


• 
  Rhythm in Mind (Novus, 1991)


• 
  M-Base Collective: Anatomy of a Groove (Rebel-X/DIW/Columbia, 1992)


• Five Elements – Drop Kick (Novus, 1992)

With Larry Coryell

• 
  Shining Hour (Muse, 1989)

With Ray Drummond

• 
  Excursion (Arabesque, 1993)


• 
  Continuum (Arabesque, 1994)

With Robin Eubanks

• 
  Karma (JMT, 1991)


• 
  Mental Images (JMT, 1994)

With Art Farmer

• 
  Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Contemporary, 1987)


• 
  Ph.D. (Contemporary, 1989)

With Frank Foster and Frank Wess

• 
  Two for the Blues (Pablo, 1984)


• 
  Frankly Speaking (Concord, 1985)

With Benny Golson

• Funky Quintet – That's Funky (Arkadia Jazz, 2000)

With Gunter Hampel New York Orchestra

• 
  Fresh Heat – Live at Sweet Basil (Birth, 1985) with Bill Frisell, Curtis Fowlkes, Bob Stewart, a.o.

With John Hicks

• 
  Beyond Expectations (Reservoir, 1993)

With Dave Holland

• 
  Seeds of Time (ECM, 1983)


• 
  The Razor's Edge (ECM, 1987)


• 
  Extensions (ECM, 1990)

With Andy Jaffe

• 
  Manhattan Projections (Stash, 1985) with Wallace Roney and Branford Marsalis
  

With the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet

• 
  Back to the City (Contemporary, 1986)


• 
  Real Time (Contemporary, 1986)

With Carmen Lundy

• 
  Jazz & the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid (CD and DVD, Afrasia, 2005)

With David Murray

• 
  Children (Black Saint, 1984)

With David "Fathead" Newman

• 
  Fire! Live at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic, 1989)


• 
  Blue Head (Candid, 1990) with Clifford Jordan
  

With Joe Newman and Joe Wilder

• 
  Hangin' Out (Concord Jazz, 1984)

With Sonny Rollins

• 
  Sonny Rollins Plays G-Man and Other Music for the Soundtrack of the Robert Mugge Film "Saxophone Colossus" (Milestone, 1987)

With Michel Sardaby

• 
  Going Places (Sound Hills, 1989)

With Archie Shepp

• 
  Soul Song (Enja, 1982)


• 
  Down Home New York (Soul Note, 1984)

With Superblue

• 
  Superblue 2 (Blue Note, 1989)

With Harvie Swartz, Mick Goodrick, and John Abercrombie

• 
  Arrival (Novus, 1992)

With Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers, and Bob Stewart

• 
  Suite Noire (Nabel, 1990)

With Bobby Watson

• 
  Love Remains (Red, 1986 [1988])

References