MINNEAPOLIS — Newborn Maddy Smith was diagnosed with end-stage heart failure last Valentine's Day. But thanks to a priceless gift, her family will have a much different holiday this year.

In the 1930s, Viola Smith was billed as the “world's fastest girl drummer,” and she went on to see other female drummers follow her trailblazing path over the next nine decades. A native of ...

Viola Smith, a swing-era musician who was promoted in the 1930s as the “fastest girl drummer in the world” and who championed greater inclusion of women in the almost completely male preserve ...

Boundary-breaking swing drummer Viola Smith, who worked with legendary jazz entertainers Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb, has died at the age of 107. Smith reportedly passed away Wednesday in Costa ...