Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)

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Terry Smith, a British jazz guitarist, twice winner of the British Melody Maker Music Polls, spent the early 60s playing with the Tony Lee Trio, until he became Scott Walker's musical director and accompanied the Walker Bros. on their Japan tour in 1968. Returning to the UK, and following the recording of a solo album, Fall Out (1968), produced by Scott Walker, and backed by some of the most prestigious jazz musicians of the day (Kenny Wheeler, Les Condon, Ronnie Ross, Ronnie Stephenson, Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson, Chris Karan, and Ray Warleigh), he went on to join US soul singer J.J. Jackson's Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land, with whom he recorded two LPs: J.J. Jackson's Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land (1969) and J.J. Jackson's Dilemma (1970).

In 1969, he teamed up with sax players Dick Morrissey and Dave Quincy, also members of Jackson's band, to form the pioneeering British jazz-rock group IF. Around that time he also appeared with Dick Morrissey and many other top British jazz musicians on Brother Jack McDuff's Blue Note recording To Seek a New Home (1970).

Smith went on to record four albums with IF's original line-up, as well as touring the US and Europe extensively. Following IF's demise, and after a brief spell in another British band, Zzebra, also with Dave Quincy, Terry Smith returned to more jazz-inspired music and is still (as of October 2006) active on the UK jazz circuit.