"James Howard "Jimmie" Smith" is an American jazz drummer.

Smith studied at the Al Germansky School for Drummers in his home town of Newark, New Jersey from 1951–54, then attended the Juilliard School in 1959-60. He began his professional career in New York around this time. In the 1960s he played with Jimmy Forrest (1960), Larry Young (musician)/Larry Young (1960–62), Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (1962–63), Pony Poindexter (1963), Jimmy Witherspoon (1963), Gildo Mahones (1963), Jimmy McGriff (1963–65), and Groove Holmes (1965).

From 1967 to 1974 he played with Erroll Garner before moving to California around 1975. He then played with:

*Benny Carter (1975, 1978, 1985)

*Sonny Criss (1975)

*Bill Henderson (performer)/Bill Henderson (1975, 1979),

*Hank Jones (1976),

*Ernestine Anderson (1976, 1986),

*Plas Johnson (1976),

*Phineas Newborn (1976)

*Harry Edison (1976–78, with Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Zoot Sims),

*Lorez Alexandria (1977–78),

*Tommy Flanagan (1978),

*Terry Gibbs (1978, 1981),

*Bob Cooper (musician)/Bob Cooper (1979),

*Marshall Royal (1980),

*Great Guitars (1980),

*Barney Kessel (1981),

*Herb Ellis (1981),

*Buddy DeFranco (1981),

*Al Cohn (1983),

*Red Holloway (1987), and

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