Eddie Williams (5)

Jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, born c. 1910 in New York. In early 1930s worked with Claude Hopkins and let own band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York. Recorded on clarinet with Billy Kyle in 1937, on tenor sax with The Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1937, 1939), and on alto sax with Jelly Roll Morton in 1940. He played with Ella Fitzgerald 1941, Henry "Red" Allen 1942 and Don Redman and others. From late 1940s led own small band; worked regularly with Happy Caldwell in the 1960s. For other jazz saxophonists, see Eddy Williams (2) or Eddie Williams Jr.