Frank Goudie
Frank "Big Boy" Goudie (* 13. September 1899 in Youngsville , Louisiana ; † 9. January 1964 in San Francisco , California) was an American jazz - clarinet , tenor saxophonist and singer of the New Orleans Jazz and Swing .
Live and act
Frank Goudie began his career as a trumpet player and worked in the 1910s and the early 1920s in New Orleans , where he in the Tuxedo Jazz Band of Papa Celestin played; then spent fifteen years in Europe from 1925, where he first appeared with Sam Wooding and in 1930 went to the London studio with Noble Sissle . In 1933 he played in Paris with Freddy Johnson and Arthur Briggs . In August 1935 he made two recordings in Paris under his own name with Django Reinhardt (the rhythm section consisted of Joseph Reinhardt , Sigismond Beck and Jerry Mengo ). Then he was part of the Willie Lewis orchestra . In the combo of Bill Coleman (with Django Reinhardt) the tracks Big Boy Blues , I Ain't Got Nobody , Swing Guitars and Baby Won't You Please Come Home were created in Paris on November 19, 1937 . In Europe he worked a. a. with Noble Sissle (1931), Freddy Johnson (1933/34), in Paris with Oscar Alemán and Willie Lewis. Under his own name he played five tracks for Swing in May 1939 (with Jack Butler , André Ekyan , Joe Turner , Wilson Myers and Tommy Benford ).
In 1940 he emigrated to Latin America, where he lived mainly in Rio de Janeiro , before returning to France in 1946, where he recorded some 78s for Swing and worked with Arthur Briggs and again with Bill Coleman and Sidney Bechet . Between 1951 and 1956 he led his own group in Berlin ; In 1952 and 1953 he played several titles for Columbia (his all stars included Hawe Schneider , Helmuth Wernicke and Günter Kiesant ). After touring Yugoslavia and Switzerland, he returned to San Francisco in 1957, where he played with local musicians and Earl Hines . In the early 1960s he recorded an album with trumpeter Amos White with dance music in the New Orleans jazz style.
Recordings (selection)
- Frank "Big Boy" Goudie with Amos White (American Music, 1960/61)
- Bill Coleman: 1938-1939 (Classics)
- Django Reinhardt: 1939-1940 (Classics)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Charles Delaunay : Hot Discographie enzyclopedique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.
- Alexander Schmitz & Peter Maier: Django Reinhardt - his life, his music, his records . Gauting, Oreos.
Web links
- Frank Goudie at Allmusic (English)
- The tenor sax of Frank Goudie Big Boy (disco biography Jan Evensmo)
- portrait
Remarks
- ↑ Also there were Christian Wagner , Èmile Stern , Lucien Simoën and Jerry Mengo.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goudie, Frank |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goudie, Big Boy (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer and swing clarinetist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Youngsville , Louisiana |
DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1964 |
Place of death | San Francisco , California |