Max Goldberg

Max Goldberg (* as Max Gorginski March 19, 1905 in East London , † February 11, 1990 in Melbourne ) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter . He also played the mellophone .

The parents immigrated from Russia and came to Toronto around 1906 , where Goldberg grew up. He played the mellophone and then the trumpet and toured with the Russian Juvenile Band in the US and Canada. He first played as a professional musician in Toronto in 1919 and came to London in 1923 with Bill Shenkman's Buffalo Orchestra , where they played at Birmingham Palace. At the end of 1925 he led his own band at Moody's Club in London, played in Kal Keech's band and in the Criterion Dance Band and in the Kit-Kat Club with Al Payne in 1926 . In 1927 he was with the Savoy Orpheans, with whom he toured Germany in 1927/28. He then worked as a freelance musician, recorded a lot and was repeatedly in bands like the Blue Lyresby Arthur Lally and from 1931 to 1935 and 1937 with Bert Ambrose . From 1941 he played in British army bands until 1944. He then worked for Ted Heath (1945), Sidney Lipton (as before the war) and Ambrose, and as a freelancer. In 1957 he emigrated to Australia. He played with the Royal Theater Orchestra in Brisbane and then with the Channel 9 television orchestra in Melbourne , where he stayed until his retirement in the 1970s. He also taught music until he had a stroke in 1981.

literature

• John Chilton : Who's who of British Jazz , Continuum 2004