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- Birth nameColeridge George Emerson Goode
- Coleridge Goode was born on November 29, 1914 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was an actor, known for When the Boat Comes In (1976), Walking on Air (1946) and Dark Pilgrimage (1962). He was married to Gertrude. He died on October 2, 2015 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseGertrude(? - June 2015) (her death, 2 children)
- His achievements through a long career have been an important inspiration for some leading contemporary black British jazz musicians.
- Abandoning his plans to return from Britain to Jamaica to work as an engineer, Goode decided to embark upon a musical career.
- In 1967 he recorded with Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Ronnie Beer, and Laurie Allan on Gwigwi Mrwebi's Mbaqanga Songs.
- Goode came to Britain in 1934 as a 19-year-old student at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow (later the University of Strathclyde), and then went on to read for a degree in engineering at Glasgow University.
- Goode's rich, full tone, flawless timekeeping, effective swing and, above all, his ability to supply the appropriate nuance and flourish to the more challenging abstractions of a piece, particularly Harriott's, assure his place in history.
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