John Levy Smithsonian Interview Block 484 (Q15433)

He was a great jazz violinist, just played - he played violin like trumpet players blow a horn or something. He didn't play it like the instrument is created for. He would - there was Eddie South, who was also a jazz player, but he was like a gypsy violinist. He played the classics. A lot of the so-called jazz violin players were more like gypsy players on the violin, but Stuff Smith was just ...