Earl Knight

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Joe "Earl" Knight (* around 1920, † 2008 ) was an American jazz pianist .

Live and act

Knight first played for Buddy Banks in Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, then worked in Cincinnati and New York with Lonnie Johnson , Hot Lips Page , Big Maybelle , Marion Abernathy , Wynonie Harris , Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Clyde Bernhardt and His Kansas City Buddies . In 1953 he performed with Lester Young in Birdland , New York ; in the 1950s and 1960s he played with Lucky Thompson & His Lucky Seven, Jimmy Hamilton , Oscar Pettiford ( Basically Duke , 1954), Coleman Hawkins , Curley Hamner and again in Clyde Bernhardt's band from 1968 to 1972. In the field of jazz he was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1945 and 1972.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Requiem - Volume CVIII, No. 6 - June, 2008. Local 802, August 19, 2008, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 12, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Earl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH 2008