OPINION: The Mysterious Life of Don Goldie

Following my post over the weekend of Jack Teagarden’s recording of Afternoon in August, featuring trumpeter Don Goldie. I received quite a few emails from readers wondering who Don Goldie was. I last wrote about Goldie in 2018 here. Goldie was a solid, melodic player with great tone but lacked the “storytelling” quality of Bobby Hackett and Don Fagerquist or soul of Charlie Shavers and Jonah Jones…