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Alphonse Trent

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Let me tell you about Trent... They were gods back in the twenties, just like Basie was, only many years ahead of him... They worked nothing but the biggest and finest hotels in the South... They were years ahead of their
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His small recorded legacy has made him a somewhat obscure figure today, but the sophistication of his arrangements and the precision with which they were executed inspired awe in contemporaries - one such,
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He left music in the mid-1930s but returned with another band in 1938. His sidemen included
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He led his first band in the mid-1920s, possibly as early as 1923. In 1924 he played with
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on October 24, 1902. He played piano from childhood and worked in local bands in
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Index

Al Trent
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Jazz
jazz
territory band
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Arkansas
Eugene Cook
American South
Midwest
steamboats
Terrence Holder
Alex Hill
Stuff Smith
Snub Mosley
Charlie Christian
Sweets Edison
Mouse Randolph
Peanuts Holland
Budd Johnson
Gunther Schuller
The Jazz Review
"Alphonso Trent (1902-1959)"



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10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2276709

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