Big Boy Goudie

Frank "Big Boy" Goudie (September 13, 1899, Youngsville, Louisiana - January 9, 1964, San Francisco) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

Goudie was raised in New Orleans, where he played cornet in Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Band and other groups. He played in the Southern United States and Mexico through the first half of the 1920s, then moved to Europe, settling in France in 1925 and switching to reeds. While in Europe he played with Benny Peyton, Louis Mitchell, Sam Wooding, Noble Sissle, Freddy Johnson, Bill Coleman (1937), and Willie Lewis (1935-38). He left Paris shortly after the outbreak of World War II and lived in South America during the war, playing with his own small groups there.

In 1946 he moved back to France, playing there with Arthur Briggs, Harry Cooper and Coleman again (1949-51). Between 1951 and 1956 he led his own group in Berlin, after which he returned to the United States. Late in his life he played clarinet with Marty Marsala and Earl Hines.

References

*"Frank 'Big Boy' Goudie". "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz".