Eva Taylor

Eva Taylor (January 22, 1895 — October 31, 1977) was an American blues singer and stage actress.Within a year she wed Clarence Williams, a producer (hired by Okeh Records), publisher, and piano player.Their legacy includes numbers made as the group Blue Five in the mid-1920s, which included the jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Sidney Bechet, trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong, and such singers as Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith.She adopted the stage name Eva Taylor, but she also worked under her birth name in Irene Gibbons and her Jazz Band.In 1927, Taylor appeared on Broadway in Bottomland, a musical written and produced by her husband, which lasted for twenty-one performances.
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