Trumpeter Don Goldie played with power and a Dixieland feel. There also were shades of Harry James in his horn. He began recording in 1959 and spent much of his early career recording with trombonist Jack Teagarden. He also recorded with Buddy Rich, Ralph Burns, Gene Krupa and others before recording a string of songbook albums under his own name for the Jazz Forum label.
In June 1960, Goldie recorded Brilliant! The Trumpet of Don Goldie for Chicago's Argo label. The personnel featured Don Goldie (tp), Eddie Higgins (p), Fred Rundquist (g), Richard Evans (b) and Jimmy Cobb (d). The tracks were Soon, I'll Be Around, Hand Me Down My Walkin' Blues, Someday You'll Be Sorry, Look for the Silver Lining, Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Tis Autumn, Toy Trumpet, Do You Know What It Means and They Didn't Believe Me.
Goldie had a swell swinging sound that catches your ear and foot. There was a mellowness, too, and he knew how to hit the gas and run up to the top of a chord and hold the note. I could listen to this guy all day.
Goldie's father, trumpeter Harry Goldfield, played with Paul Whiteman in the 1920s and 1930s while his mother, Claire St. Claire, was a concert pianist and a piano teacher for George Gershwin. Goldie began on the piano and learned to play trumpet when he was 10. In the late 1940s, while still in his teens, he played with Art Hodes and Willie “The Lion" Smith.
While living in Miami, Don Goldie committed suicide in 1995.
JazzWax tracks: Don Goldie's Brilliant! is available in Japan on CD, but the album never made it to the download format. Hopefully Fresh Sound will pick up on this one and team it with one or two other Goldie albums.
JazzWax clips: Here's the entire album at YouTube...
Here's Goldie playing Give Me the Simple Life with Bob Whitlock on guitar and Jack Keller on piano...
And here's Goldie with the same group playing Samba de Orpheo...
In June 1960, Goldie recorded Brilliant! The Trumpet of Don Goldie for Chicago's Argo label. The personnel featured Don Goldie (tp), Eddie Higgins (p), Fred Rundquist (g), Richard Evans (b) and Jimmy Cobb (d). The tracks were Soon, I'll Be Around, Hand Me Down My Walkin' Blues, Someday You'll Be Sorry, Look for the Silver Lining, Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Tis Autumn, Toy Trumpet, Do You Know What It Means and They Didn't Believe Me.
Goldie had a swell swinging sound that catches your ear and foot. There was a mellowness, too, and he knew how to hit the gas and run up to the top of a chord and hold the note. I could listen to this guy all day.
Goldie's father, trumpeter Harry Goldfield, played with Paul Whiteman in the 1920s and 1930s while his mother, Claire St. Claire, was a concert pianist and a piano teacher for George Gershwin. Goldie began on the piano and learned to play trumpet when he was 10. In the late 1940s, while still in his teens, he played with Art Hodes and Willie “The Lion" Smith.
While living in Miami, Don Goldie committed suicide in 1995.
JazzWax tracks: Don Goldie's Brilliant! is available in Japan on CD, but the album never made it to the download format. Hopefully Fresh Sound will pick up on this one and team it with one or two other Goldie albums.
JazzWax clips: Here's the entire album at YouTube...
Here's Goldie playing Give Me the Simple Life with Bob Whitlock on guitar and Jack Keller on piano...
And here's Goldie with the same group playing Samba de Orpheo...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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