Donald Elliott Goldfield, also known as Don Goldie and Billy Franklin (February 5, 1930 - November 19, 1995)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter.
[1] In early childhood he began learning piano and then trumpet when he was ten years old.
In 1948, at the age of 18, he began playing at the Riviera Club in Greenwich Village with a band led by Art Hodes and Willie "The Lion" Smith.
[1] Late in the 1950s he played with Tony Parenti (1957) and Joe Mooney (1957), then with Jack Teagarden (1959 through 1963).
Other associations include Ralph Burns, Neal Hefti, Gene Krupa, Earl Hines, and Buddy Rich.