Back In Your Own Back Yard - Music

Max Kaminsky September 7 1908 – September 6 1994 Was A Jazz Trumpeter And Bandleader Of Max Kaminsky's Orchestra. Kaminsky Was Born In Brockton Massachusetts September 7th 1908. He Started His Career In Boston In 1924 And By 1928 Worked In Chicago With George Wettling And Frank Teschmacher At The Cinderella Ballroom And In New York For A Brief Period In 1929 With Red Nichols. He Was Primarily Known For Dixieland And At One Time Played For The Original Dixieland Jass Band. For The Next Five Years He Worked In Commercially Oriented Dance Bands At The Same Time Recording With Eddie Condon And Benny Carter's Chocolate Dandies 1933 And With Mezz Mezzrow 1933-34 . He Played With Tommy Dorsey 1936 1938 And Artie Shaw Briefly In 1938 Performed And Recorded With Bud Freeman 1939-40 And Worked Again With Shaw 1941-43 Who Led A Navy Band With Which Kaminsky Toured The South Pacific. From 1942 He Took Part In Important Concerts In New York That Were Organized By Condon At Carnegie Hall And Town Hall And From The Following Year He Played Dixieland With Various Groups. He Also Worked In The 1940s With Sidney Bechet George Brunis Art Hodes Joe Marsala Willie "The Lion" Smith And Jack Teagarden. Later He Worked In Television And Led Jackie Gleason's Personal Band For Several Seasons Toured Europe With Teagarden's And Earl Hines' All Stars 1957 And Performed At The Metropole And Ryan's In New York At Intervals From The Late 1960s To 1983 The Newport Jazz Festival And The New York World's Fair 1964-5 . In 1963 He Published "My Life In Jazz" With V. E. Hughes. In 1975-1976 He Made Recordings As A Leader That Well Illustrate His Style Which Is Full-Toned Economical And Swinging In The Manner Of King Oliver Freddy Keppard And Louis Armstrong. Kaminsky Passed Away On September 6th 1994. read less