Description:
Max Kaminsky led a long and varied life in jazz, playing at one time or another with the greatest musicians in jazz history. He began this jazz journey at the Shawmut Theatre in Roxbury Massachusetts when he was 13 in 1921. This collection begins with 1942 recordings with Brad Gowans, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, Eddie Condon, Al Morgan and George Wettling and concludes with 1962 recordings during a period when he led the band on board the 'Great Gleason Train,' which Jackie Gleason commissioned to travel across country to promote his tv show. |
 Don't Leave Me Daddy
Fidgety Feet
Rose Room
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
Singing The Blues
Back In Your Own Back Yard
All The Wrongs You've Done To Me
You Can't Cheat A Cheater
Everybody Loves My Baby
Guess Who's In Town
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Ugly Chile
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
If I Had My Way
Carey Me Back To Old Kaminsky
Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
Lonesome Road
Stuyvesant Blues
Tin Roof Blues
Basin Street
Just One Minute
What's The Use |
Collective Personnel: Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Brad Gowans, Lou McGarity, Miff Mole, Cutty Cutshall, Joe Bushkin, James P. Johnson, Gene Schroeder, Joe Sullivan, Sid Catlett, Tony Spargo, George Wettling, more |
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