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An extremely diverse musician, he was at equally at home playing in the famous Birdland Jazz Club or sight reading scores in the orchestral pit of the New York Philharmonic . From Schoenberg to Gershwin to originals, Smith was undoubtedly one of the most versatile guitarists of the 1950s.

Johnny Smith stepped out of the public eye/ear in the late 1960s, having moved to Colorado in 1958 to teach and run a music store and to raise his daughter after the passing of his second wife.