Re: [Harp-L] Max Geldray

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most of what's offered at that link is also available on a 2-CD set from Fremeaux in France called Harmonica Swing:

http://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=508&Itemid=13

I had forgotten that Max Geldray was on that. I'll have to dig it out and listen some more.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Slim Heilpern <slim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Slim Heilpern <slim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Max Geldray
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: MundHarp@xxxxxxx, "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 7:40 AM

Thanks Winslow for the tip about the Goon show and the background on Max Geldray, I had no idea...

I recently bumped into several Max Geldray cuts on a really cool compilation called "Harmonica Jazz Essentials" that I found on eMusic.com:

http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Harmonica-Jazz-Essentials-MP3-Download/11240781.html

It is apparently available through various other online shops as well.

There's lots of fun stuff on this compilation that I had never heard before...

- Slim.

On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

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> The only way to really hear Max Geldray is to check out the Goon show, an anarchical BBC radio comedy that ran for most of the 1950s and inspired the youngsters who would later become Monty Python's Flying Circus. Each half-hour comedy would feature two musical interludes, one from Max and one from singer Ray Ellington.
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