The First Harmonica Jazz Player – by Art M. Daane The Beginning. Max Geldray was born Max van Gelder in Amsterdam in 1916. It was not until 1932 that he first saw a chromatic harmonica; the shop owner offered it to him when he was taking refuge from a torrential rainstorm in his shop.By 1934 […]
Month: November 2020
Jim Hughes “Live @ Stratford (UK)”, 1983
This concert was recorded by someone and a CD-R of the concert was found in the archive I got from John Bryan. This was the second annual convention of the independent National Harmonica League run at that time by John Walton. He had taken it over from Hohner in 1981 and it was run by […]
Dror Adler – The Classical Project
I originally published this article in Harmonica World in June 2006. I think it is worth including it here. Dror wrote: I have been a member of the Adler Trio since we formed it in 1963. Here is a little bit of history and the background that led to the recording of my new CD, […]