Bradford, Perry
(1893–1970)> AFRICAN-AMERICAN PUBLISHER · COMPOSER · VAUDEVILLIAN · ARTISTS’ MANAGER · RECORD PRODUCER
Perry Bradford African-American publisher, composer, vaudevillian, artists’ manager, and record producer Montgomery, Alabama, February 14, 1893; New York City, April 22, 1970. He was the fourth black publisher to make a mark in Tin Pan Alley (after Gotham-Attucks, Pace and Handy, and Clarence Williams). In 1916, while Bradford was playing the Standard Theatre in Philadelphia with his partner Jeanette Taylor, he published his “Lonesome Blues .” Apparently this edition was a well-kept secret, for…