- FRANK COUGHLAN 1904-1979 Father of Australian Jazz Jazz Trombonist and Dance Band Leader of the Sydney Trocadero Introduction Early Days Trip to UK Opening of Trocadero Frank Coughlan - the man Discography Meet Me At The Trocadero Book on the Life & Times of the Sydney Trocadero Links to Jazz Pages When the Sydney Trocadero opened on the 4th April 1936 Frank Coughlan and his Dance Band became ...home.westserv.net.au/~fordhen/Frank_Coughlan.html