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Eddie Dougherty

Born: July 17, 1915

On one of his very first visits to the United States in 1935, the young jazz critic Leonard Feather made special mention of drummerEddie Dougherty, at that point only 18 years old but already employed in a club managed by trombonist Dicky Wells. This wasn't the drummer's first professional job by any stretch either. That had already happened a few years back courtesy of bandleader Billy Gussak, taking an inspirational interest in a lad who had begun banging on the drums almost immediately upon becoming a teenager. When Dougherty finally retired from fulltime music decades later he had amassed a list of credits that not only rivals the length of some short stories but represent a thorough involvement in many different styles of jazz, vocal music and rhythm and blues