Big Boy Goudie

Frank " Big Boy" Goudie (* September 13, 1899 in Youngsville, Louisiana; † January 9, 1964 in San Francisco, California ) was an American jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist and singer of the New Orleans Jazz and Swing.

Life and work

Frank Goudie began his career as a trumpeter and worked in the 1910s and the early 1920s in New Orleans, where he played in the Tuxedo Jazz Band Papa Celestin; then spent fifteen years in Europe from 1925, where he appeared with Sam Wooding and Willie Lewis and with Bill Coleman and Django Reinhardt on November 19, 1937, the title Big Boy Blues, I Is not Got Nobody, Swing Guitars and Baby Will not You Please Come Home played in Paris. In Europe he worked among others with Noble Sissle (1931 ), Freddy Johnson (1933 /34), in Paris with Oscar Alemán and Willie Lewis. Under his own name he recorded in May 1939 five titles for Swing, including André Ekyan, Joe Turner and Tommy Benford.

In 1940 he emigrated to America, where he lived mainly in Rio de Janeiro, before he returned in 1946 to France, where he recorded some 78s for Swing, and worked with Arthur Briggs and again with Bill Coleman. Between 1951 and 1956 he led his own group in Berlin before moving to San Francisco returned in 1957, where he played with local musicians and Earl Hines. In the early 1960s, he recorded an album of dance music in the New Orleans jazz style with trumpeter Amos White.

Recordings (selection)

  • Frank " Big Boy" Goudie with Amos White ( American Music, 1960 /61)
  • Bill Coleman: 1938-1939 ( Classics )
  • Django Reinhardt: 1939-1940 ( Classics )

Lexical entry

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
  • Charles Delaunay: Hot Discography enzyclopedique 1952 Volume 3 (El - He). Paris, Editions Jazz Disques, 1952.
  • Alexander Schmitz & Peter Maier: Django Reinhardt - His life, his music, his records. Gauting, Oreos.

Links / sources

  • Biography at answers.com
  • Biographical data
  • Jazz Singer
  • Jazz saxophonist
  • Jazz clarinetist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1899
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
Joe Turner (Jazzpianist) Arthur Briggs (musician) Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer)
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