Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Licker

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Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers is the full name of Lavay Smith's band. Smith is an American singer specialising in the Blues and Jazz, from Swing to Bebop. She is known as The Queen of Classic Jazz & Blues.[by whom?] Smith performs her own original compositions as well as songs made famous in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s by the great women of Jazz and Blues, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Big Maybelle and Esther Phillips. Smith is an independent artist and owns her own record label, Fat Note Records. Trumpet player Allen Smith is a recipient of the San Francisco Jazz Festival Beacon Lifetime Achievement award. Trumpet player Bill Ortiz has been a member of Carlos Santana's band for over 7 years and can be heard on Santana's last 4 albums, including the hit record \"Smooth\". Tenor Saxophone player Howard Wiley and Bassist David Ewell toured with Lauryn Hill on and off throughout 2007. Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers won the San Francisco Regional Poll in The 1st Annual Independent Music Awards for \"I Want a Big Fine Daddy\". Her second album, \"Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Thing!\" spent 20 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Magazine Jazz Charts, reaching number 10.