Leonard Caston

CTL-E-0541 · Person · 1960–1970

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Pianist Leonard Caston played in the regular band of Chess session musicians on Chicago soul recordings and later became a producer for Motown.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-007; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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Wikipedia, 'Chess Records'

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