Vocals.
An “entertainer,” a vocalist with an act, Rucker sometimes sang at individual tables. He was a big name in Tijuana in 1921, and may have come to Seattle in the ’20s with Los Angeles’ Black and Tan Orchestra. Contemporaries Joe Darensbourg and Palmer Johnson characterized Rucker as a highly-paid, flamboyant “blue” (off-color) singer who sang with a cane as a prop. Rucker played the Jungle Temple on Highway 99, the Entertainers Club, at 14th Avenue South and South Jefferson Street and the Black and Tan, at 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street
Jackson Street After Hours (print); https://books.google.com/books?id=vDR4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=eddie+rucker+jazz+singer&source=bl&ots=uNeHwbZJ4t&sig=ACfU3U3s-eG_VpXMVSaJ6bSbx5kLrt9lFw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEkazzrK_pAhVM_J4KHVVVBPYQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=eddie%20rucker%20jazz%20singer&f=false