Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen 1905, Harry ya bar ƙungiyar bayan jayayya da Jolson. Harry ya ƙi roƙonsa na kula da Joe Palmer, wanda yake cikin keken guragu. Bayan tafiyar Harry, Jolson da Palmer sun yi aiki a matsayin duo amma ba su yi nasara ba. A shekara ta 1906 sun yarda su rabu, kuma Jolson yana da kansa. Ya zama na yau da kullun a Globe da Wigwam Theater a San Francisco kuma ya sami nasara a duk faɗin ƙasar a matsayin mawaƙin vaudeville. Ya yi zama a San Francisco, yana cewa girgizar kasa
-mutane sun lalace suna bukatar wani ya farfaɗo da su. A shekara ta 1908, Jolson, yana buƙatar kuɗi don kansa da sabon matarsa, Henrietta, ya koma New York. A shekara ta 1909, waƙarsa ta jawo hankalin Lew Dockstader, mai samarwa da tauraron Dockstader's Minstrels. Jolson ya yarda da tayin Dockstader kuma ya zama mai baƙar fata.