Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers is the full name of Lavay Smith's band. Smith is an American singer specialising in the Blues and Jazz, from Swing to Bebop. She is known as "The Queen of Classic Jazz & Blues".

Smith performs her own original compositions as well as songs made famous in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s by the great women of Jazz and Blues, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Big Maybelle and Esther Phillips.

Lavay Smith is an independent artist and owns her own record label, Fat Note Records. Her last album, "Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing!" spent 20 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Magazine Jazz Charts, reaching number 10.

Discography

*"One Hour Mama" (1996) (Fat Note Records)
*"Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Thing!" (2000) (Fat Note Records)

External links

Official Lavay Smith Web Sites:

* [http://lavaysmith.com Official Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers web site]
* [http://myspace.com/lavaysmith Official Lavay Smith MySpace page]

Official Lavay Smith Band Member Web Sites:

* [http://myspace.com/chrissiebertmusic Official Chris Siebert MySpace page]
* [http://www.billortiz.com/ Official Bill Ortiz web site]
* [http://myspace.com/olmos Official Mike Olmos MySpace page]
* [http://broussard.com/ Official Jules Brousard web site]
* [http://charlesmcneal.com/index.html Official Charles McNeal web site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/charlesmcneal Official Charles McNeal MySpace page]
* [http://howardwiley.com/ Official Howard Wiley web site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/howardwiley Official Howard Wiley MySpace page]
* [http://myspace.com/davidewell Official David Ewell MySpace page]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46907481 Official Darrell Green MySpace page]