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Charles Earland (24 May 1941 & ndash; 11 December 1999cite web |first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6440|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by Richard S. Ginell |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=8 January 2009) was an United States|American jazz composer , organist , and Saxophone|saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom.
Biography
Earland was born in Philadelphia and learned to play the saxophone in high school . He played tenor saxophone|tenor with Jimmy McGriff at the age of seventeen, and in 1960 started his first group. He started playing the organ after playing with Pat Martino , and joined Lou Donaldson 's band from 1968 to 1969.
The group that he led from 1970, including Grover Washington, Jr. , was successful, and he eventually started playing soprano saxophone and synthesizer . His hard, simmering grooves earned him the nickname , 'The Mighty Burner'.
In 1978 Earland hit the disco/club scene with a track sound recording and reproduction|recorded on Mercury Records called "Let the Music Play", songwriter|written by Randy Muller from Brass Construction . The gramophone record|record was in the United States|U.S. record chart|charts for 5 weeks and reached number 46 in the UK Singles Chart .cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 176 With Earland's playing on synthesizer , the track also has an uncredited female singing|vocalist .
From 1988 until his death, Earland traveled extensively. One of the many highlights of his latter years was playing at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1994. Among the musician s that performed with him at the Berlin Jazz Festival, was the Alabama born, Chicago resident, Zimbabu Hamilton. http://www.zimprov.com Zimprov.com on the drum s.
Earland continued to perform throughout the U.S. and abroad until his death. He died in Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City , Missouri of heart failure at the age of fifty-eight.
Persondata|NAME = Earland, Charles |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Jazz musician |DATE OF BIRTH = 24 May, 1941 |PLACE OF BIRTH = Philadelphia |DATE OF DEATH = 11 December, 1999 |PLACE OF DEATH = Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City
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