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A career big-band player, Elmer Williams played with some of the best, including Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson, among others. Williams worked with Claude Hopkins in 1926-1927 before joining Webb. He worked with Webb on and off through 1934, also playing for a time with McKinney's Cotton Pickers in 1931 and with one of Louis Armstrong's early big bands in ...more


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