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22: 254:, alongside Bumps Myers and Paul Howard. By the early 1940s he appears to have left music. Because he never recorded, his bands were never heralded by later jazz scholars and critics, but "many of the musicians who played in bands led by Echols recalled it with great affection and admiration". 215: 146: 142: 165: 138: 133:
with musicians who had played in his bands, though the group did receive coverage in contemporaneous newspapers. Echols led a band based in
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trumpeter and bandleader. He led several California-based dance bands in the 1930s that featured a large number of important early jazz and
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were added to the lineup. Echols left this ensemble and Flennoy became its leader in 1934; Echols then formed a new group with Red Mack,
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Almost nothing is known of Echols's own life, including his birth and death dates; most of what is known about him is reconstructed from
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all played with it. Later in the 1930s, he led yet another band which included
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