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Purnell, Alton

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Personal name headingPurnell, Alton
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LocatedLos Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date1911
Death date1987
Place of birthNew Orleans (La.)
Field of activityMusic Jazz
AffiliationBunk Johnson's Jazz Band
Profession or occupationPianists
Found inHello Central-- give me Doctor Jazz [SR] p2001: container (Alton Purnell, piano)
articles.latimes.com, 4 May 2018 (article title: Alton Purnell, jazz pianist in L.A. for many years, is dead at age 75; published January 19, 1987; Alton Purnell, jazz piano; born in 1911 in New Orleans; a regular with the Bunk Johnson Band)