Fud Livingston

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Joseph Anthony "Fud" Livingston (born April 10, 1906 in Charleston (South Carolina) , † March 25, 1957 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( clarinet , tenor saxophone ), arranger and composer .

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Livingston learned the piano, clarinet and saxophone. As a hot jazz musician, he arranged for band leaders such as Roger Wolfe Kahn and Jean Goldkette (1925) from the mid-1920s and played with Husk O'Hares Wolverines . In 1926 he became a member of Ben Pollack's Californians , on whose recording of “Red Hot” Livingstone can be heard as a soloist on the clarinet, heavily influenced by the New Orleans jazz of Jimmie Noone or Leon Rappolo . For Pollack he provided the arrangements for “He's the Last Word” and “Dee I Do” ( Victor Records ), for Bix Beiderbecke “Singin 'the Blues” and “Clarinet Marmelade”. After leaving the Pollack band, he was henceforth active as a freelance musician; he worked as a musician or arranger a. a. with Louis Armstrong , Jimmy McPartlands Wolverines , Charleston Chasers , California Ramblers , Nat Shilkret , Sam Lanin , Jan Garber , Boyd Senter and Joe Venuti . For several years he was a member of the Red Nichols / Miff Mole band and Nichols' band Five Pennies , in which he developed his style on the clarinet. His other well-known compositions include "Feelin 'No Pain", "Humpty Dumpty", "Imagination", "Harlem Twist" and "Sax Appeal", which contains a longer quote from Bix Beiderbecke's "In a Mist".

Beiderbecke organized a session for Victor Records in which an all-star formation, to which Glenn Miller , Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman also played Livingston's arrangements. In 1929 he played with Fred Elizalde in London . In the early 1930s he worked for Paul Whiteman for several years until he was replaced by Arthur Rollini . He later worked in Hollywood for Bing Crosby's radio show, played with Jimmy Dorsey, and in the late 1930s he still wrote arrangements for Bob Zurke , then hardly worked as a musician. His subsequent career was severely affected by alcoholism ; in the 1950s he occasionally appeared in smaller ensembles in New York and died forgotten in March 1957.

He is best remembered as the composer of the jazz standard " I'm Thru with Love ", which he wrote with Gus Kahn and Matty Malneck .

Discographic notes

  • Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1936-37 ( Classics )
  • Benny Goodman: 1928-1931 (Classics)
  • Miff Mole: Slippin 'Around (Frog, 1927-30)
  • Red Nichols: 1927-1928 , 1928-1929 , 1929 (Classics)

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SURNAME Livingston, Fud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livingston, Joseph Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician, arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston, South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1957
Place of death New York City