These included Matt Smith, who at 16 became the youngest WFD champion, and two bass drum competitors Tim Yeung and Mike "Machine" Mallais.
As an improvising soloist, he has performed and toured with Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Chris Potter, the New York Voices, Nicholas Payton, Herb Ellis, Donald Byrd, Darius Brubeck and the Manhattan Transfer.
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Tom Smith was the longest continuous member of the North Carolina Artist-in-Residence Program (1984–1992), while based at three separate North Carolina community colleges.
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Matt Smith (son) is an award winning jazz drum set musician, percussionist, hip hop mixologist, and radio/television personality who in 2006, at age 16, won the WFD World's Fastest Drummer Extreme Sport Drumming competition in the Fastest Hands category.
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In 2011, he signed on as house drummer with Euro blues headliner A. G. Weinberger on the weekly television show Acadeaua.
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