PUTTER SMITH

Hard Bop • United States
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Putter Smith found out about the sinister overarching effects of Hollywood just after his film debut in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

“I was floating in this little rubber raft just 50 yards off of Huntington Beach, and this little kid who looks to be about 8 or 9 years old comes by on a rubber tire," says the 66-year-old jazz bassist who peppers his speech with “motherfucker" and “you dig" and who cuts the figure of a hep, bookish Burl Ives. “He comes by on a rubber tire and yells, 'Hey, you're the guy from Diamonds Are Forever!' And I said, 'No, it wasn't me,' and he said, 'So who the hell are ya then?!'"

Smith was a local legend for years before his oddball bit part in the seventh Bond film as the vaguely homosexual Mr. Kidd to Bruce Glover's perfume-spritzing Mr. Wint -- campy but read more...
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PUTTER SMITH Lost & Found (aka Movement 1) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Lost & Found (aka Movement 1)
Hard Bop 1977
PUTTER SMITH Home album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Home
Hard Bop 2011
PUTTER SMITH Putter Smith Quintet : Night Song album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Putter Smith Quintet : Night Song
Hard Bop 2018

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