Mouth Organ Swing No. 1
Context
Recorded in Paris on February 1, 1939, this track signed by Max Geldray shows him as a harmonica soloist in a group that notably includes violinist Michel Warlop. Geldray is credited as one of the first to play harmonica in the jazz style. He would later play the musical interludes of the Goon Show.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Jazz in France (interwar years), Dutch jazz. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.