Frank "Big Boy" Goudie (September 13, 1899 – January 9, 1964)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter, alto and tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.
In 1921 he joined a band accompanying a traveling minstrel show, and for the next four years he performed in Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and California.
while in Europe, Goudie carried a wicker suitcase full of upholstery tools with which to augment his income - a trade he likely learned as a young man in New Orleans.
He left Paris in late 1939, moving to South America, where he worked in Brazil and Argentina with guitarist Oscar Aleman, and fronted his own groups.
His presence became known to the close-knit Bay Area jazz community and it was not long before he again was playing music and in demand, working with bands led by trumpeter Marty Marsala, pianists Earl Hines, Bill Erickson and Burt Bales, trombonist Bob Mielke and other local groups.