IDA GOODSON

Tambien conocida como SADIE GOODSON fué una pianista de Jazz . Durante los años 20 formó parte de la orquesta que Buddy Petit presentaba en el S.S.MADISON, un Riverboat de línea en el lado Pontchartrain, después trabajó con Kid Rena y Alec Bigard 



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Jazz pianist Ida Goodson was born into a musically gifted family near Pensacola, Florida, in 1909. She was the youngest of seven girls raised by strict Southern Baptist parents who prohibited the playing of secular music in the home. Despite that, both she and her sister, Wilhelmina Goodson, learned to play the piano and developed a love for barrelhouse blues and jazz. Ida Goodson performed throughout the South but maintained a home base in Pensacola, where she often accompanied tours with national stars such as Bessie Smith. She was adept at several different styles of music, including gospel, jazz, blues, vaudeville, and popular songs. In 1979, she was rediscovered by field researchers working for the Florida Folklife Commission, who included several of her compositions on the widely acclaimed Drop on Down in Florida double album. Goodson became a mainstay at the Florida Folk Festival and was awarded the prestigious Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1987. In 1989, she appeared in the documentary film Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, and at age 80 she stole the show from the younger, more widely known musicians.

                         


From the Jazz Crusade album JCCD-3005: A Jazz Gumbo, Vol. 2
The Jazz Crusade Revival Band
Personnel: Linda Young [vocal]
Big Bill Bissonnette [trombone] Sadie Goodson-Colar [piano]
Sammy Rimington [clarinet] Paul Boehmke [tenor sax]
Emil Mark [banjo] Tuba Fats Lacen [brass bass] Andrew Hall [drums]

April 18, 1993 New Orleans

The music career of Sadie Goodson spanned almost the entire 20th century. She was only 16 years old when she began playing piano with New Orleans jazz bandleaders such as Buddy Petit and was closing in on 100 years old when she took the stage at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 1998. Despite this remarkable longevity, even more interest is generated by the Goodson family itself. There were six sisters, all of whom played piano and at least half of whom also sang. The best known of the sisters was born as Wilhelmina "Billie" Goodson but changed her name to Billie Pierce following her marriage to trumpeter and vocalist De De Pierce. The rest of the sisters hung on to their original surname: there were also Ida Goodson, Edna Goodson, Mabel Goodson, and Della Goodson, listed in order of least obscurity. Sadie Goodson attached the names of at least two of her husbands to some credits, showing up at gigs and on recordings as both Sadie Goodson-Colar and Sadie Goodson Peterson.

The family is without a doubt the most important musical dynasty from the Pensacola, FL, area. Local historians referring to the Goodson Sisters, however, usually limit the list to the three most famous and active sisters: Billie, Ida, and Sadie. At least that was the perspective offered by a 2002 stage show entitled The Goodson Sisters: Pensacola's Greatest Gift to Jazz, a combination of dramatized historical narrative and musical performances. Like Billie Pierce, Sadie Goodson backed up classic blues stars Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey in the early days and between the '60s and the '90s received a great deal of exposure internationally as part of the rotating lineup of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Her earliest important gig had been with the Petit band, lasting into the Roaring Twenties and including a stint on the S.S. Madison riverboat in which the band included a musician who may have been her first husband, Chinee Foster.

There are many examples of the sisters working together in various combinations over the years. In the '20s Sadie Goodson accompanied Edna Goodson, at that point concentrating on her vocalizing, in a touring revue known as the Mighty Wiggle Carnival. Many years later the former sister performed together with Ida Goodson at festivals in both the United States and abroad. Apparently in their youth, all of the sisters trekked around the Gulf Coast to get in on jazz opportunities in New Orleans and surrounding environs, to the great horror of parents who had provided them with piano training with the hope that careers in gospel music would follow.

For Sadie Goodson it was pretty much the opposite, mainly holding forth at many raunchy so-called cabarets with players including Kid Rena, Chris Kelly, and Alex Bigard. In an action-packed senior moment -- she was more than 80 years old at the time -- she married the illustrious Kid Sheik, apparently one of her childhood sweethearts. During the mid-'90s the couple relocated to Detroit. While Ida Goodson has provided lengthy and important information in interviews concerning the sisters' backgrounds, Sadie Goodson is the sibling who came up with what seems like a most succinct historical philosophy. When asked in 1993 by a journalist what it been like backing up Bessie Smith, Goodson reportedly snarled "Buy the record

Ida Goodson (November 23, 1909 – January 5, 2000) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist.

Goodson was born in Pensacola, Florida, the youngest of seven sisters, six of whom survived to adulthood. Her father and mother both played the piano.Her father was a deacon at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola.

All of the daughters in her family received musical training, with the sole intention that they would perform in church. Goodson noted that the blues were banned in her house.However, Ida and her sisters Mabel, Della, Sadie, Edna, and Wilhemina (better as Billie Pierce), all subsequently had careers in blues or jazz.[4] The Preservation Hall Jazz Band often had one of the Goodson sisters playing keyboards. Goodson played the piano accompanying silent films and at dances.

The Florida Folk Archive released a recording made at the Florida Folk Festival in 1980, containing a duet between Ida and Sadie Goodson. Ida Goodson received a Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1987.

A 2002 stage show, The Goodson Sisters: Pensacola's Greatest Gift to Jazz, focused on Ida, Wilhemia, and Sadie Goodson. The PBS video Wild Women Don't Have the Blues includes rare footage of Bessie Smith and her one-time accompanist, Goodson. The music journalist Chris Heim wrote in the Chicago Tribune that "Sprightly blues and gospel performer Ida Goodson—the scene stealer of the film—gives a stunning exhibition of the intimate connection between gospel and blues when she takes the song "Precious Lord" from a rich, slow gospel opening to a rollicking boogie-woogie conclusion."

In her senior years, Goodson played the organ at several churches in Pensacola.[1][4] The album Ida Goodson: Pensacola Piano—Florida Gulf Blues, Jazz, and Gospel was released by the Florida Folklife Program.