SUNRA (HERMAN SONNY
BLOUNT, LE SONY' RA). Jazz keyboardist ( in Birmingham, Alabama). He began playing piano when he was about eleven years old. He attended Alabama A & M College in Huntsville and during that time studied music privately with Willa Randolph. His early professional experiences were with the local group Society Troubadours and with
Paul Bascomb
, both in Birmingham. About 1934 he settled in Chicago, Illinois, and organized his own group, which performed primarily...