Dan Smith

Jazz Collective

Dan Smith hold a Bachelors of Music from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and has done post graduate work at Indiana University at Bloomington and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Dan has enjoyed an extensive career as a freelance trumpet player. He has played with various artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole, Manhattan Transfer, Sammy Davis Jr., Rose Mary Clooney, Bernadette Peters to name but a few.  He has also performed at The Fox Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre and The Muny. He has also done some touring with with the Glenn Miller and Russ Morgan Orchestras. He has been teaching privately for the past 20 years and also can be heard playing piano around the St. Louis area.