[Dixielandjazz] Goldie Lucas

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I should imagine Goldie was a nickname, in this case that of a man.
. It is of course a Scottish surname, but there are all sorts of possible reasons why a non-white male might have been called Goldie, including the painful situation of the white author G. Lowes Dickinson, whose first given name was Goldsworthy. He might have had an extravagant West Indian name, he seems to have been based in New York and to have worked with Bingie Madison, in that saxophonist's own band and/ or under the names of King Oliver and Clarence Williams. 
Somebody with a good library of books about 1920s New York Jazz would have some answers.
My ancient first edition of John Chilton's WHO'S WHO OF JAZZ mentions an unpublished autobiography of Madison.


Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:13:52 +0100
From: Bob Smith <robert.smith at tele2.no>
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I'm wondering about the forename to Goldie Lucas who played banjo and guitar with King Oliver and Clarence Williams, I assumed that the forename "Goldie" belonged to the fair sex, but listening to the vocal trio (Lucas is a member) on the Chocolate Dandies' recordings, I can't hear a female voice, Google dudn't help, and neither do any of the jazz books that I have.
Can anybody help me with this question of whether Lucas was male or female?

Bob Smith