[1] From February to May, 1928, Smith was featured in the band along with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson in the Waller/Andy Razaf Broadway musical and dance revue Keep Shufflin' which ran for 104 performances.

[3] Later on in 1928 he toured with James P. Johnson's Orchestra, when their show broke up in Chicago, Illinois, where Smith stayed for a few years.

Subsequently, Smith dropped out of the public eye, playing music part-time in Milwaukee with a regular job at an automobile hire company.

[1] Smith made a comeback starting in the late 1960s, successfully playing with bands and shows in New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, London, and France through the 1970s and into the 1980s.

Concerts in France, Italy, Switzerland and Netherlands took place with Smith and the Hot Antic Jazz Band.