Alphonso Trent

b. Alphonse Trent, 24 August 1905, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA, d. 14 Oct 1959, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA. Blessed right into a middle-class family members, Trent discovered piano young and by his teenagers was playing frequently in regional dance rings. He produced his own music group while in his past due teens, then proved helpful briefly for another regional leader before overtaking his small music group and securing an extended residency at a resort in Dallas, Tx. Because of this engagement he extended the music group to 10 items; among the wonderful music artists he hired had been Snub Mosley, Wayne Jeter, Hayes Pillars (who later on teamed up to create the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra), drummer A.G. Godley, generally acclaimed as the daddy of Kansas City-style drumming, Stuff Smith, Peanuts Holland and Sy Oliver. Because of regular broadcasts from your hotel, Trent’s recognition spread through the entire south-western claims. He paid high income and provided his sidemen extremely good conditions including smart outfits and personal limousines. The line-up from the music group remained remarkably continuous and the music artists enthusiastic, well conscious that these were envied by much less fortunate associates of various other territory rings. This persistence, allied to adequate rehearsal period and excellent agreements (apart from Oliver, the music group’s arrangers included Gus Wilson, sibling of Teddy Wilson), helped to construct the orchestra in to the excellent territory music group from the pre-swing period. Although the music group occasionally performed in the east, including an appearance at New York’s Savoy Ballroom, Trent chosen to stay in the south-west. This parochial attitude, in conjunction with the fact which the music group made only a little handful of information, avoided it from producing a direct effect upon the nationwide jazz picture. Worse still, the music group’s administration was inept and in 1933, over the eve from the explosion appealing in big music group jazz, Trent was appreciated to flip. For all of those other 30s he continuing to try out with small groupings, for one which he unearthed the unknown Charlie Christian, but by the first area of the pursuing 10 years music was just a part-time curiosity. He passed away in Oct 1959. During its life the Trent music group displayed criteria of musicianship on the par with those of even more famous bands, such as for example Fletcher Henderson’s and Jimmie Lunceford’s, but his few information give just a tantalizing glance of its characteristics.