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Barney Kessels Statement on the Guitar Playing of Johnny Smith:

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Johnny Smith is one of the greatest Guitar Players to ever live. The song "Moon Light in Vermont" by Johnny Smith on Guitar is now a legendary piece of music.

I met Johnny Smith in person in 1964 at his music store in Colorado Springs. He was a great guy, who had a really neat Guitar store. Johnny Smith talked at length with me. He posed for many pictures with me.

Johnny Smith Guitar Solos -

Dancing On The Ceiling,

East Of The Sun,

Easy To Love,

It Could Happen To You,

There's A Small Hotel,

In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning,

Have You Met Miss Jones?,

Love For Sale,

Lover, Lover Man,

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You,

Moonlight in Vermont,

'S Wonderful, Taboo,

Tea For Two,

Tickle Toe,

Walk Don't Run,

What's New,

Where Or When,

Zing! Went The Strings of My Heart".

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I talked to Johnny Smith and the Band during their breaks. They were all nice to me and my wife. Though my wife was not really a Jazz Fan, she knew she was listening to Genius when Johnny Smith Played, and she enjoyed the music greatly.

All members of the Johnny Smith Quartet at Shanners were highly developed musicians who were worthy to play with this great guitarists. They clicked in a way that was pure music magic.

Johnny Smith was known for his clean and tasteful Guitar. His playing in person was very clean, no matter how fast his runs may have been. Naturally his slow playing, using very complex chords was always done with perfection. His tone quality was so good that one must hear him play to really know what a great tone he always got from his Guitar. The man was a perfectionists when it came to the Guitar and all music.

Johnny Smith held many seminars around the country after he moved to Colorado Springs and opened his Music Store. He was so highly thought of that the demand for his seminars were great. In reality Johnny Smith was a Guitar God by the time he moved to Colorado Springs. The World would not give him up. He was always in demand to appear here or there to give a seminar or a week end concert. However Johnny Smith still worked in his Guitar store like any other Guitar shop owner.

A Guitar Store owner that I taught Guitar for in St. Louis, Paul Huelsing, of Huelsing Music, told me that he went to see Johnny Smith there in his music store in Colorado Springs. There was Johnny Smith putting new strings on one of his customer's Guitar.

Musicians are known for the large Egos. However, Johnny Smith never appeared to be an egotistical person to me. When someone is as good on Guitar, and in music as Johnny Smith is, they don't have to be egotistical; they don't have to prove anything to anyone, including themselves. Johnny Smith was truly a self actualize person.

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When I met Johnny Smith in Colorado Springs at his Guitar Music Store, I had been a devoted fan since I was a very young Teenager. Both Johnny Smith and Barney Kessel had been two of my greatest Guitar Heroes. I was nervous when I met him. It was like being in the presence of greatness to me. Johnny Smith made me feel at ease. He was a great person to me.

I bought many Johnny Smith Albums. The ones I listened to the most were Johnny Smith with Stan Getz and Johnny Smith with Art Van Damme the Jazz Accordionist. Both albums were tops in my book. However, all of the Johnny Smith LPs were great. It's too bad that all his LPs were not put to CDs so people could purchase them now.

There can be no doubt that Johnny Smith is a musical genius. All one had to do was listen to him and you would immediately know you were in the presence of a Guitar Genius. His musical ability was so great that it cannot really be expressed in words. You must hear the man, and feel the Genius that is there in his music.

In a lifetime there are few musicians who are to the level that Johnny Smith is when it comes to music and playing the Guitar. I would name a few that I consider who are worthy to be mentioned with Johnny Smith: Johnny Smith, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow and Wes Montgomery, and a Great Jazz Guitarist in St. Louis who’s name is Bobby Ward. To me these were the top Be Bop Jazz Guitarists.

Of course Johnny Smith was much more than a Jazz Guitarist for Johnny Smith Played Trumpet in the Army Air Force Band, and he played trumpet regularly on many TV shows in New York City in the 50s. I never knowingly heard Johnny Smith Play Trumpet. I loved Guitar and only knew him for his Guitar Playing. However, Johnny Smith must have been an incredible trumpet Player to have played in the NBC Bands.

Be Bop Jazz is one of the most complex Music that exists. Johnny Smith was the greatest, playing Be Bop Jazz, both fast and slow songs. He has always been just plain great, pure genius, when it comes to guitar.

When Johnny Smith moved to Colorado Springs he had experienced the height of music success in New York City, in Jazz, Recordings, and the Radio TV Circuit. I heard that he moved to Colorado because of health reasons. When I met him he was rather pale looking. Johnny Smith was 42 when I first met him in 1964. However, he looked like a man about 30 years old. I remember Johnny Smith as being a young looking man. I shall always remember him in that way.

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Johnny Smith was one of the Guitarists who designed a Guitar and had it built by a well known Guitar maker. The Great Guitarists is a perfectionist, that is why he worked with a Guitar Maker to get the Guitar he wanted. Johnny Smith also had his Amps Hand Built to his own specification. That is the length he went to get the sound in a Guitar that he wanted.

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