Fud Livingston

Fud Livingston (April 10, 1906 - March 25, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.

Livingston started out on accordion and piano before settling on saxophone. He played with Talmadge Henry in Greensboro, South Carolina in 1923, then worked with Ben Pollack, the California Ramblers, Jean Goldkette, Nat Shilkret, Don Voorhees, and Jan Garber; he also recorded freelance with musicians such as Joe Venuti, Red Nichols, and Miff Mole. He did some arrangement work for Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke, including the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty".

He worked with Fred Elizalde in London in 1929, then returned to New York City to play with Paul Whiteman. His stint with Whiteman, which lasted from 1930 to 1933, was mainly as an arranged, though he played occasionally. Later in the 1930s he worked with Benny Goodman (1934), Jimmy Dorsey (1935-37), Bob Zurke, and Pinky Tomlin (1940). He essentially retired after this point, working in music publishing, though he occasionally performed in small-time venues in New York in the 1950s. He never recorded as a leader.

References

*Scott Yanow, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hjfexqu5ldte~T1 Fud Livingston] at Allmusic