Fwd: [Harp-L] Harmonica player with Django



Audios of Max Geldray playing on the Goon Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBR6_o9Icgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2H-9UNMyM4

--David Naiditch
davidnaiditch.com

Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Naiditch <davidnaiditch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: September 5, 2011 9:28:36 AM PDT
> To: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica player with Django
> 
> Martin,
> 
> The harmonica player was Max Geldray (1916 - 2004).  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 9:05 AM, martin oldsberg wrote:
> 
>> This link goes to the website of a program on Swedish public radio, a story about one of numerous Django Reinhardt festivals. 
>>  The caption below the picture says: "Duke Ellington on a visit to France, Django Reinhardt on guitar."
>> 
>> Apart from the always dapper Mr Ellington I believe you can see Django´s brother Joseph to the right. But below him there´s a guy playing the harmonica.
>> The only harmonica player that I connect to Django is Larry Adler, and this clearly is not him. 
>> Did Django -- or Duke E, for that matter -- gig with a harmonica player? Can anybody identify this guy?
>> 
>> http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1012&artikel=4676002
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
> 
> 




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