Frank Goudie

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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)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Also there were Christian Wagner , Èmile Stern , Lucien Simoën and Jerry Mengo.
personal data
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