A. G. Godley
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A. G. Godley
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A. G. Godley was an American jazz drummer. His contemporaries considered Godley one of the finest big-band drummers in the Southwest. In 1924, Godley joined the Alphonse Trent Orchestra, the leading band in Dallas at that time, with Terrence Holder on trumpet, and Snub Mosley on trombone. Budd Johnson, referring to Trent's band, later said: "They were gods back in the twenties, just like Basie was later, only many years ahead of him. ... They made $150 a week a man. Imagine! They worked nothing
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American jazz drummer
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2023-11-15T20:56:44Z
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