Dee ihe ọzọ na paragraf a - Smith mechara sonye na Ivy Benson Orchestra n'afọ 1948 ma fega Berlin igosi ndị agha mgbe mgbochi obodo ahụ
malitere. Ọ lụrụ onye na-afụ opi bụ Jack Peberdy n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ 1950 (mgbe nna ya kọwaara ya ya n'emume ncheta ọmụmụ nke 19 nke saxophonist). Smith sonyeere ìgwè egwu Freddy Randall n'otu afọ ahụ, ya na di ya rụkwara ọrụ oge niile maka onye opi ahụ site na 1953 ruo February 1957. N'afọ 1956, ndị otu ahụ gara United States, na mgbanwe maka nleta Louis Armstrong na United Kingdom. Esemokwu agbụrụ dị elu n'oge ahụ na n'otu ụlọ ihe nkiri dị na North Carolina ebe ọ na-eme, a chụpụrụ ndị otu ahụ n'ihi bọmbụ. Smith gara njem nlegharị anya na otu mmemme ahụ dị ka Bill Haley & His Comets, wee nwee ihe ịga nke ọma mgbe ndekọ ya nke "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" ruru na paradaị egwu America, na-enweta ụfọdụ ndị egwu ama ama nke mba ahụ. A họpụtara Smith dịka otu n'ime ndị egwu egwu tenor-saxophone kacha mma na Britain na ntuli aka "Melody Maker" nke 1957.