Legendary Tucson saxophonist talks about his early influences in RnB and Soul and discovering John Coltrane. Interview conducted at The Century Room.

Warren Smith was born in 1934 and moved to New York In 1957. He along with Ken McIntyre opened the first black-ethos music school at SUNY Westbury. He became the first black to be part of an orchestra and was the drummer for the last seven years of the original New York run of West Side Story on Broadway. He was also part of Max Roach's percussion project MBOOM. Sessions, lofts and education followed. Another legend.

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