{"id":97393,"date":"2020-10-25T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/viola-smith-trailblazing-swing-drummer-dead-at-107\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:27:08","slug":"viola-smith-trailblazing-swing-drummer-dead-at-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/viola-smith-trailblazing-swing-drummer-dead-at-107\/","title":{"rendered":"#Viola Smith, Trailblazing Swing Drummer, Dead at 107"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Viola Smith, Trailblazing Swing Drummer, Dead at 107<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Viola Smith, the trailblazing drummer once heralded as the \u201cfastest girl drummer in the world,\u201d has died, The Washington Post<\/a><\/em> reports. She was 107 years old. According to the Post<\/em>, Smith died October 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. The cause of death was revealed to be complications from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Smith grew up in a musical household: her father was a cornetist, and her musician sisters played everything from saxophone, to violin, clarinet, and more. \u201cThere were five girls ahead of me in the family and they had the rest of the instruments,\u201d Smith said in a 2013 interview with Tom Tom Magazine<\/a><\/em>. \u201cBy the time there was a sixth one added to the family orchestra, my dad decided there should be a drum\u2014which was great for me, because, what better instrument to play than the drums?\u201d<\/p>\n

Widely considered the first professional female drummer, Smith studied under Radio City Music Hall drummer Billy Gladstone. She gained recognition as the percussionist for Frances Carroll & the Coquettes, an all-female big band group that became popular in the late 1930s. She was known not only for her speed and precision, but her 12-drum kit which featured high-mounted tom-toms.<\/p>\n

Following her tenure as a Coquette, Smith studied timpani at New York\u2019s prestigious Juilliard School, where she studied under Ed Fisher. In 1942, she penned an article for DownBeat<\/em> magazine titled \u201cGive Girl Musicians a Break!,\u201d in which she argued that big band leaders should hire more female musicians. She also played in Phil Spitalny\u2019s \u201cHour of Charm\u201d All Girl Orchestra, as well as the Kit Kat Band jazz quartet featured in the original 1960s production of Cabaret<\/em>.<\/p>\n

During her storied career, Smith worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb, Bob Hope, and many others. She also performed with the NBC Symphony Orchestra and on The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> numerous times. \u201cI\u2019m really very thankful that I am accepted as a drummer, a girl drummer,\u201d Smith told Tom Tom<\/em> shortly after her 100th birthday. \u201cAt one time, there was no such thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“#Viola Smith, Trailblazing Swing Drummer, Dead at 107” Viola Smith, the trailblazing drummer once heralded as the \u201cfastest girl drummer in the world,\u201d has died, The Washington Post reports. She was 107 years old. According to the Post, Smith died October 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. The cause of death was revealed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f95b7747c5da4185e1c9d22\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/Viola%20Smith.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70557],"class_list":["post-97393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}