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Wilbert Granville Thodore Hogan Jr., better known as G. T., was born January 16, 1929 in Galveston, Texas. He started out playing saxophone into high school but then switched to the drums. He started playing professionally with Earl Bostic from 1953-55 prior to his move to New York City.

During this period G. T. worked with Randy Weston, recorded with Elmo Hope and was closely associated with Bud Powell during his Parisian sojourn. Over the course of his career he worked with Kenny Drew, Walter Bishop Jr., Ray Charles, Kenny Dorham, Cecil Payne, Wilbur Ware, Julian Priester and Hank Crawford.

A brilliant drummer whose backbeat personified the kind of rhythmic approach that easily made Hogan recognizable as a Texas drummer and whose magnificence shone when teamed with an individualistic pianist. By the 70s he became less active in music but continued into the 90s when he began to suffer from emphysema. Recording on more than 50 albums and credited in a variety of ways as Granville Hogan, Wilbert Hogan, G. T. Hogan, W. T. Hogan and Wilbert G. T. Hogan, the drummer passed away on August 7, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas.

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