Fud Livingston

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

Life and work

Livingston studied piano, clarinet and saxophone. As a musician, the hot jazz musicians he arranged from the mid-1920s for bandleader Roger Wolfe Kahn and Jean Gold Chain (1925 ) and played at Husk O'Hare's Wolverines. In 1926 he became a member of Ben Pollack Californians, can be heard on the recording of " Red Hot " Livingstone as a soloist on the clarinet, heavily influenced by New Orleans jazz of Jimmie Noone and Leon Rappolo. For Pollack he delivered the arrangements of " He's the Last Word " and " Dee I Do" (Victor Records), for Bix Beiderbecke "Singin 'the Blues " and "Clarinet Marmalade ". After leaving the Pollack band he was henceforth active as a freelance musician; he worked among other things as a musician or arranger Louis Armstrong, Jimmy McPartlands Wolverines, the Charleston Chasers, the California Ramblers, Nat Shilkret, Sam Lanin Jan Garber, Boyd Senter and Joe Venuti. He was for several years a member of Red Nichols / Miff Mole band and Nichols ' Five Pennies band in which he ausformte 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 lengthy quote from Bix Beiderbeckes "In a Mist".

Beiderbecke organized for Victor Records a session where an all-star lineup, which also includes Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman Livingston played arrangements. In 1929 he played in London with Fred Elizalde. The early 1930s, he worked for several years with Paul Whiteman, until he was replaced by Arthur Rollini. Later he worked in Hollywood for Bing Crosby's radio show, played with Jimmy Dorsey and the late 1930s, he wrote arrangements for Bob Zurke, then operated barely as a musician. His further career was strongly affected by alcoholism; he stepped into the 50s occasionally even in New York in smaller ensembles and died forgotten in March 1957.

He remains mainly as a composer of jazz standards "I'm thru with Love " in memory, which he wrote with Gus Kahn and Matty Malneck.

Disco Graphical 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 )

Lexical entries

• Carlo Bohländer et al: Reclams jazz leader. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1970