Clarence Williams was talented and driven; a bandleader and composer who wrote many jazz and blues classics.
He was wildly successful as a publisher and music director for jazz and blues record labels.
During the 1920-30s he worked for Okeh Records and other labels directing production of nearly one thousand jazz and blues records by Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Fats Waller, and he composed for early black musical theater.
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