Fud Livingston
Joseph Anthony "Fud" Livingston was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer.
Career
In the 1920s, he performed with Ben Pollack and served as his arranger, with the California Ramblers, Jean Goldkette, and played on the 1928 Brunswick recording of "Room 1411" as a member of Benny Goodman's group Benny Goodman's Boys, which also featured Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland, Bud Freeman, and Pollack.He worked with Fred Elizalde in London in 1929, then returned to New York City to record with the Frank Trumbauer Orchestra for OKeh Record Co. on July 22, 1930 and later that same week with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra on Columbia Phonograph Co., adding alto sax to the tenor sax and clarinet he had played on the previous session.
Livingston replaced Trumbauer for a second stint in Whiteman's orchestra, which included numerous recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Co., with recording session notes from that period showing Livingston as arranger as well as playing tenor sax and clarinet, featuring on several solos.
Later in the 1930s he worked with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Zurke, and Pinky Tomlin. He essentially stopped writing and arranging at this point, though he occasionally performed in small-time venues in New York in the 1950s. He never recorded as a leader.