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| soul-jazz organists | |
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Earland was born in Philadelphia , and learnt to play the saxophone at High School . He played 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 , was successful, and he eventually started playing Soprano Saxophone and Synthesizer . He died in Kansas City at the age of fifty-eight. SOURCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
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