Smith, an alumnus of Berklee

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

, has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums.

In addition, he also has toured with Sting, Dave Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

, Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...

 and Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

. He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet, and is in a band with Kevin Eubanks

Kevin Eubanks

Kevin Tyrone Eubanks is an American jazz guitarist and composer who was the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2010. He also led The Primetime Band on the short-lived The Jay Leno Show.- Personal background :Eubanks was born into a musical family...

, fellow Berklee alum and Tonight Show band member. Marvin Smith is married to Kimberly Brown-Smith of Greensboro

Greensboro, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

North Carolina

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.

Smith is often an in-studio guest on The Loose Cannons sports radio program, on Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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' KLAC-AM, often when the Tonight Show is on a vacation break.

As sideman

With Dave Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

• Seeds of Time
  Seeds of Time
  Seeds of Time is an album by bassist Dave Holland's Quintet recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "The all-star musicians pack plenty of music and concise solos into each performance , and the unique group...
  
  (ECM, 1983)
• The Razor's Edge
  The Razor's Edge (album)
  -Track listing:# "Brother Ty" - 4:34# "Vedana" - 4:53# "The Razor's Edge" - 7:52# "Blues For C.M." - 9:15# "Vortex" - 8:11# "5 Four Six" - 4:26# "Wights Waits for Weights" - 5:25...
  
  (ECM, 1987)
• Extensions (ECM, 1990)

With Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

• Down Home New York
  Down Home New York
  Down Home New York is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1984 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
  
  (Soul Note, 1984)

With Superblue

Superblue (band)

Superblue was an American jazz ensemble that released two albums for Blue Note Records in 1988 and 1989.-Supeblue:Superblue featured an octet including Bobby Watson, Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Frank Lacy, Bill Pierce, Kenny Washington, Don Sickler, Bob Hurst.#"Open Sesame"#"I Remember...

• Superblue 2 (1989, Blue Note Records
  Blue Note Records
  Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
  
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