[78-L] Paul Smith obit

[David Lennick]

>   Jazz pianist, music arranger Paul Smith dies at 91
>
> The Associated Press
> Posted: 07/02/2013 06:22:56 AM PDT
> Updated: 07/02/2013 06:22:56 AM PDT
>
> LOS ANGELES—Paul Smith, a jazz pianist, composer and arranger who worked with
> such greats as Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole and Dizzy Gillespie, has died at 91.
>
> Publicist Alan Eichler tells the Los Angeles Timesthat Smith died Saturday at a Torrance hospital.
>
> Smith began studying classical piano when he was 8 and joined a professional
> band in his teens.
>
> Over a long career, he recorded more than five dozen albums with his own groups
> and accompanied many performers, including Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald,
> Doris Day and the Andrews Sisters.
>
> Smith also arranged and performed TV and movie scores as a studio musician. He
> spent more than 25 years as pianist and music director for "The Steve Allen
> Comedy Hour."