Boyd Atkins

Boyd Atkins (1900 – March 1, 1965)[1] was an American jazz and blues reed player.

Atkins played with the Fate Marable band touring on the Mississippi River in the late 1910s.

In 1927, Atkins joined Louis Armstrong's band at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, where he played clarinet along with soprano and alto saxophone.

He was back in Chicago by 1951, and in the 1950s he took more work as an arranger, and played more often with blues musicians such as Elmore James and Magic Sam.

Some details of Atkins' life are obscure, with his full date of birth unknown.