Charles Earland

Charles Earland ( born May 24, 1941 in Philadelphia, † December 11, 1999 in Kansas City, Missouri) was an American organist and saxophonist who played primarily soul-jazz.

Charles Earland learned saxophone during his time in high school, where he played baritone saxophone in a band with Pat Martino and Lew Tabackin. At age 17, he worked as a tenor saxophonist Jimmy McGriff; In 1960 he had a first own band. In 1963, he began playing the organ, after he had worked again with Pat Martino and was in 1968/69 member of the band by Lou Donaldson. His most successful and most important (after Cook and Morton ) album "Black Talk! " Was created in 1969 in collaboration with Houston Person, Vigil Jones, Melvin Sparks and Idris Muhammad. With his later albums he has published texts on the labels Milestone and High Note Records, he could no longer connect to this success.

From 1970 onwards, he led a band that also played Grover Washington. In 1978 he had a hit in the disco / club scene with "Let the Music Play ". From 1988 until his death Earland was regularly on tour, 1994, he performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Black Talk! ( Prestige / Original Jazz Records, 1969)
  • Leaving This Planet ( Prestige 1973) with Eddie Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson
  • Odyssey ( Mercury, 1976)
  • Perceptions ( Mercury, 1978)
  • Coming to You Live (Columbia, 1980)
  • Front Burner ( Milestone, 1988)
  • Slammin '& Jammin' (Savant 1998) with Carlos Garnett, Melvin Sparks, Bernard Purdie
  • Cookin 'with the Mighty Burner ( High Note, 1999)
  • Stomp! ( High Note, 2000)

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