Max Kaminsky (musician)

Max Kaminsky ( born September 7, 1908 in Brockton / Massachusetts, † September 6, 1994 ) was an American jazz trumpeter of Dixieland jazz.

Kaminsky began his career after private education in 1924 in Boston. In 1928, he played in Chicago with George Wettling and Frank Teschemacher. A short time he was also in the band Original Dixieland Jass. Later he moved to New York City and worked at Red Nichols. In 1933 he played with the Chocolate Dandies of Eddie Condon and Benny Carter, then at Mezz Mezzrow. He worked with Tommy Dorsey (1936, 1938) Artie Shaw and Bud Freeman ( 1939). With the Marine Band, the Artie Shaw initiated during World War II, he played in the South Pacific. He then joined with Condon at Carnegie Hall and played with Sidney Bechet, George Bruni, Art Hodes, Joe Marsala, Willie "The Lion" Smith and Jack Teagarden (eg Big T. and Mighty Max, Teldec 1979, Compilation Commodore recordings 1944).

In the 1950s, he played several years in the television band of Jackie Gleason, often played with Eddie Condon and also was a member of Earl Hines All stars with whom he toured Europe in 1957. 1958/59 he was with Teagarden on tours in Europe and Asia on the go. In 1963 he wrote his autobiography with VE Hughes and had since 1964 again his own band, with which he repeatedly until the 1980s, appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival and played in the 1970s at the club Jimmy Ryan's.