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Eddie Condon

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Biography

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A major propagandist for freewheeling Chicago jazz, an underrated rhythm guitarist, and a talented wisecracker, Eddie Condon's main importance to jazz was not so much through his own playing as in his ability to gather together large groups of all-stars and produce exciting, spontaneous, and very coherent music.

Condon started out playing banjo with Hollis Peavey's Jazz Bandits when he was 17, he worked with members of the famed Austin High School Gang in the 1920s, and in 1927 he co-led (with Red McKenzie) the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans on a record date that helped define Chicago jazz (and featured Jimmy McPartland, Jimmy Teschemacher, Joe Sullivan, and Gene Krupa). After organizing some other record sessions, Condon switched to guitar, moved to New York in 1929, worked with Red Nichols' Five Pennies and Red McKenzie's Blue Blowers, and recorded in several settings, including with Louis Armstrong (1929) and the Rhythm Makers (1932). During 1936-1937, he co-led a band with Joe Marsala.

Although Condon had to an extent laid low since the beginning of the Depression, in 1938, with the opportunity to lead some sessions for the new Commodore label, he became a major name. Playing nightly at Nick's (1937-1944), Condon utilized top musicians in racially mixed groups. He started a long series of exciting recordings (which really continued on several labels up until his death), and his Town Hall concerts of 1944-1945 (which were broadcast weekly on the radio) were consistently brilliant and gave him an opportunity to show his verbal acid wit; the Jazzology label reissued them complete and in chronological order. Condon opened his own club in 1945, recorded for Columbia in the 1950s (all of those records have been made available by Mosaic on a limited-edition box set), and wrote three colorful books, including his 1948 memoirs We Called It Music. A partial list of the classic musicians who performed and recorded often with Condon include trumpeters/cornetists Wild Bill Davison, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Rex Stewart, and Hot Lips Page; trombonists Jack Teagarden, Lou McGarity, Cutty Cutshall, George Brunies, and Vic Dickenson; clarinetists Pee Wee Russell, Edmond Hall, Joe Marsala, Peanuts Hucko, and Bob Wilbur; Bud Freeman on tenor; baritonist Ernie Caceres; pianists Gene Schroeder, Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy, and Ralph Sutton; drummers George Wettling, Dave Tough, and Gene Krupa; a string of bassists; and singer Lee Wiley. Many Eddie Condon records are currently available, and no jazz collection is complete without at least a healthy sampling.

Title: Star Light

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: 1944 Jam Sessions

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Chicago Style

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Bixieland

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: 1927-1943

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Ballin' the Jack

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Beat to the Socks

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Dancing Fool

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Dixieland All-Stars

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Dr. Jazz Vol. 16

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Eddie Condon

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Honeysuckle Rose

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Ivy League Jazz

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: Ol' Man River (Live)

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Title: One Night Stand

Artist: Eddie Condon

Genre: Jazz

Collections

Title: Old Time Charleston

Genre: Pop

Title: The Roots of Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: Vintage Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: The Apollo Theatre

Genre: Jazz

Title: Back Porch Blues

Genre: Country

Title: Pure Retro Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: Roads of Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: V-Disc Era 1943-1949

Genre: Pop

Title: The Commodore Story

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz Guitar Legends

Genre: Jazz

Featuring albums

Title: Big Band Bash

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz Treasures

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

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