Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica player with Django

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow;
               As I read your post, I am processing, for the university
library where I work, a series of CDs of the Goon Show, each complete
with musical features form Max and Ray Ellington.
Anyone interested in getting hold of some of Max's  excellent work
should take a look
here:http://www.amazon.com/Goon-Show-Bluebottle-Remastered-Collections/dp/0563388595/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1315270151&sr=8-14

Regards,
RD
>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 6/09/2011 5:39 >>>
Max Geldray was from Holland, and moved to the UK with the rise of
Hitler (some of his relatives - he was Jewish - died in the Nazi death
camps). For much of the 1950s he had a regular weekly radio gig on one
of the most popular comedy programs of the era, the Goon Show, which
featured Peter Sellers (later a big international movie star), Spike
Milligan, and Harry Secombe doing a whole avalanche of voice impressions
and characters in zany plots - they were a direct influence on the Monty
Python crew, who grew up listening to the Goons. Each show featured
musical interludes alternating Max with a singer named Ray Ellington
(who was from the west Indies and not related to the dapper Mr. E). 


The shows were performed live and many, perhaps most, were recorded.
Perhaps a few dozen of the shows were released on LP or other media (and
some turn up on the net), so that if you look hard you can find a number
of Max Geldray performances, always light, breezy and uptemp, and very
well played and catchy. To my knowledge he never made an independent
recording (or if he did it's very obscure).

In later years Geldray got into the clothing business, and eventually
retired to Palms Springs.

WInslow

 
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
Columnist, harmonicasessions.com


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From: David Naiditch <davidnaiditch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 9:28 AM
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
DjangoÌs brother Joseph to the right. But below him thereÌs 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