Boyd Atkins

American musician

Born: 1900
Paducah
Died: 1 March 1965
Cook County
Country: United States

Biography

Boyd Atkins was a jazz musician who played saxophone and clarinet. Boyd Atkins was born in 1900 in Paducah and died on 1 March 1965 in Cook County. The music is usually filed under jazz.

Boyd Atkins (1900 – March 1, 1965) was an American jazz and blues reed player. He played saxophone and violin professionally. Atkins was born in Paducah, Kentucky, United States. Atkins played with the Fate Marable band touring on the Mississippi River in the late 1910s. He was on the St. Louis, Missouri musical scene with the band of Dewey Jackson early in the 1920s. Following this Atkins moved to Chicago and led his own band which included Kid Ory. He also worked with Earl Hines and Carroll Dickerson. In 1927, Atkins joined Louis Armstrong's band at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, where he played clarinet along with soprano and alto saxophone. Armstrong's band played Atkins' most famous tune, "Heebie Jeebies". Later in the 1920s he again led his own band, The Firecrackers. Between 1931 and 1934 he played with Eli Rice, and became a bandleader in Minneapolis in the middle of the decade. He also played with Rook Ganz there.

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