Harold Joseph Singer (born October 8, 1919), also known as Hal "Cornbread" Singer, is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist.
Singer was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma's African-American district, Greenwood. He grew up in Greenwood where he studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice. From the late 1930s he began playing in local bands, including Ernie Fields', before joining Jay McShann's orchestra in...