Max Geldray

harmonica · 1916–2004 · Amsterdam

Harmonica player born Max Leon van Gelder in Amsterdam, credited as one of the first to play harmonica in the jazz style. After Brussels and Paris, where he played with Ray Ventura and Django Reinhardt, he settled in England in 1940 and provided the musical interludes of the Goon Show from 1951 to 1960.

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Styles

• Swing, big bands
• Jazz in France (interwar years)
• Dutch jazz

Landmark tracks

• Mouth Organ Swing No. 1 (1939)

Sources

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