Charles Covington Jr. is an American jazz pianist and a U.S. Life Master in chess.
A native of Baltimore, Covington became interested in jazz when the high school principal broadcast music by Erroll Garner and Ahmad Jamal on the intercom.
[1] He served in the U.S. Army, attended the Peabody Institute, and learned piano and organ at the Hammond School of Music.
[1] He also worked with Ethel Ennis, J.J. Johnson, O'Donel Levy, and Nathan Page.
[1] For twenty years he taught at the Peabody Conservatory, then at Howard University.