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1958 - All Star Jazz Show - Town Hall - New York
Eddie Condon, Billie Holiday, Buddy Rich, J.C. Higginbotham, Buck Clayton, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Max Kaminsky
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1958 - All Star Jazz Show - Town Hall - New York
Eddie Condon, Billie Holiday, Buddy Rich, J.C. Higginbotham, Buck Clayton, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Max Kaminsky
Trumpeter Max Kaminsky (left to right), saxophonist Lester Young, trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, and pianist Lennie Tristano perform together at the newly-opened Birdland on Broadway, December 26, 1949.
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📸 Art Kane
Front row, from left: Art Blakey, Marian McPartland, Miff Mole, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Rushing, Roy Eldridge, Max Kaminsky, Hilton Jefferson. Laughing on the right, up the stairs, is Dizzy Gillespie.
‘It would be sort of a graduation photo or class picture of all the jazz musicians. After I thought about it some more I decided they should get together in Harlem. After all, that’s where jazz started when it came to New York’
- Art Kane
Max Kaminsky, Lester Young, “Hot Lips” Page, Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano at Birdland.
1957 - The New Dream Jazz Sextet - Scandinavian tour
Jack Teagarden (tb), Earl Hines (p), Max Kaminsky (tp), Cozy Cole (dr), Peanuts Hucko (cl), Jack Lesberg (b)
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Jack Teagarden's Big Eight: A Jam Session at Victor: 1947
There was a “Jam Session At Victor,” but that was the artist credit given to Tommy Dorsey, Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan and Dick McDonough when they immortalized Honeysuckle Rose and Blues back in 1937. This record here, made a decade later, has a fabulous group assembled by Teagarden, propelled by the drumming of Davey Tough, with great solos by Peanuts Hucko, Max Kaminsky, Gene Schroeder and the rarely heard tenorman Cliff Strickland. Chuck Wayne is the guitarist and Jack Lesberg round out this magnificent cast on a real treasure.
-Scott Wenzel
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Anybody else notice how much trad jazz I've been spinning lately? Anyways, I almost passed this one up until I realized that 1) it's on the Contemporary label and 2) the side players. Sid Catlett, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Morton, and James P. Johnson all appear on cuts. I'm gonna see if Max holds his own.
Trumpeter Max Kaminsky March 22, 1944