Earle Howard

Earle "Nappy" Howard (June 3, 1904 – December 31, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, He belonged to a youth band that included Benny Carter, Charlie Irvis, and Benny Morton. and later performed at Strand Danceland, New York, with a band that included saxophonists Fernando Arbello and Pete Brown (autumn 1928 – spring 1929), before accompanying Bill Benford (spring 1929 – spring 1930).

In 1930, he led a big band in Boston, and spent the next decade as a musical director and performing in clubs in New York, with residencies at the Saratoga Club, the Savoy Ballroom and in the Blackbirds revue, played with Leon Abbey, and toured in South America. He moved to Europe in the 1950s.

Discography Americans in Europe Vol. 2 (Impulse!, 1963)