George Corley

Among the true old-timers in the Austin, Tx, music picture, George Corley was a trombonist whose glide brushed against the tops of his cowboy boot styles. He was principally connected with Tx and its different place bands, provide or have a western coast jaunt occasionally. His family members was steeped in music and his brothers Reginald Corley and Wilford Corley had been sidemen in George Corley’s Royal Aces Orchestra on trumpet and tenor saxophone, respectively. The fantastic bassist Gene Ramey performed sousaphone within this group, shaped in 1930, and provides acknowledged the Corley clan with significantly motivating him. By 1932 the music group got undergone something of the coup, with Terrence Holder acquiring charge and functions shifting north to Dallas. The brothers Corley hung using the band, without doubt grooving towards the noises of outstanding sax players Pal Tate and Earl Bostic. George Corley afterwards continued to gig in an array of place bands like the Troy Floyd Music group, Tommy Brooks, Sammy Holmes, and Boot styles & His Buddies, the last mentioned clothing led by Clifford “Boot styles” Douglas. It had been during a even more expansive tour with Henry “Rabbit” Thompson the fact that trombonist elected to stay in California. He spent from 1943 to 1950 in the western coast, mostly dealing with Ben Watkins, a bandleader of this period. Up to the first ’60s when he faded from your music picture, this Corley sibling spent the majority of his period back his home condition. He did function again around the western coast using the buttery tempo & blues vocalist Jimmy McCraklin.