BRYANT, WILLIAM STEVEN (WILLIE
). Entertainer/Jazz bandleader ( in New Orleans, Louisiana; in Los Angeles, California). His family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was four years old. During the years c 1926-33 he toured widely on the vaudeville circuit; he played for five years with the
Whitman Sisters
company, including an act with
Princess Pee Wee
, and with such performers as
Bessie Smith
and Buck and Bubbles (née Ford Lee Washington...