Freddy Taylor

American jazz singer, trumpet player and bandleader, born 1914 in New York City. In the early 1930s worked as dancer and entertainer at Cotton Club, learned to play trumpet c. 1933 and went to Europe leading own band in 1935, where he stayed until late 1930, when he went back to the US, returning to his role as entertainer. Brief return to Paris in 1967.