On his new album, MichaelBuble trumpeter Jumaane Smith looked to a holy trinity of Jazz players -- Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Louis Prima -- for inspiration
The crowd roars as a pianist starts playing a loping swing groove. Then, a trumpet player begins a solo, his impressive wails echoing around a cavernous venue — the 82,300-person-capacity Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. When he begins singing the 1944 standard “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” spectators cheer again, this time in recognition.
Smith is hoping to reach some of those same fans with “When You’re Smiling,” which features him singing and playing on a collection of nine standards and one original, entitled “Sweet Baby.” The song selections were partially inspired by three of Smith’s biggest influences, all of whom happen to share a first name:, Louis Jordan and Louis Prima. Those three Louises all happened to be instrumentalists who also led bands and sang — like Smith.
“He told me that the best way to really connect with a song is to understand the lyrics,” Smith says. “So I started to learn the lyrics to these standards, and to sing them. Now, my voice influences the way that I play the trumpet, and the trumpet sort of influences my voice as well. All the technical stuff — changing vibrato, or the character of your tone — becomes way more obvious when you don’t have an instrument to hide behind.
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