Career
He was the brother of noted New Orleans jazz players Willie Humphrey and Percy Humphrey. He traveled widely in the 1920s, and in 1927 recorded with Louis Dumaine. He played through the 1930s but retired to Virginia in the 1940s.
In 1963 he returned to New Orleans, where he was urged to resume his musical career.
He recorded his first sessions as bandleader in the mid-1960s. Igor"s Imperial Orchestra (1966) and Earl Humphrey & His Feetwarmers (1967) on the Center label.
Earl died at his home in New Orleans in 1971 at the age of 68.
