Albert Edwin Condon , better known as Eddie Condon, is an American jazz musician, guitarist, composer and band leader. Usually associated with the so-called Chicago School of Early Dixieland , "white" jazz. It is believed that it was Eddie Condon who created the standard for sounding the guitar in the rhythm group of a jazz orchestra.
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| Full name | Albert edwin condon |
| Date of Birth | November 16, 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Goodland, Indiana , USA |
| Date of death | August 4, 1973 (67 years old) |
| Place of death | New York , USA |
| A country |  USA |
| Professions | musician , composer, band leader |
| Years of activity | 1921 - 1971 |
| Instruments | guitar , banjo |
| Genres | jazz |
| Labels | and |
Biography
Born in the town of Goodland, Indiana in 1905. The childhood of the musician was spent in the towns of Momens and Chicago Heights in Illinois . At an early age, Eddie Condon mastered the ukulele , but later switched to a banjo . In 1920, the young musician moved to Chicago and in 1921, at the age of sixteen, he became a professional musician. His first group was Hollis Peavey's Jazz Bandits [1] . In Chicago, Eddie Condon worked for Austin High School Gang and McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans , which have a strong local presence, and occasionally performed with jazz stars such as Bix Biderback and Jack Tigarden .
In 1928, Eddie Condon moved to New York, where he switched from a banjo to a guitar. Throughout the 1930s, he was constantly a member of the Red Nichols' Five Pennies and Red McKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers , and also played and recorded with various musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller . In 1929, the musician decided on a step unprecedented in those days: on his initiative several compositions were recorded in a mixed composition of the orchestra: white and black musicians. Until 1938, Eddie Condon released some recordings under his own name, among them Eddie Condon and his Footwarmers and Eddie 'Hot Shots .
In 1938, Eddie Condon began many years of collaboration with the label Commodore Records , which allowed the musician to gain great popularity. He performed a lot with famous musicians, especially at Nick's club, where their performances, by analogy with the term Dixieland, were nicknamed Nicksieland . These performances made Eddie Condon “the icon of jazz New York”. [2] From 1944-1945, Eddie Condon was a frequent guest on America's Town Meeting of the Air , which was a success across the country.
In 1945, Eddie Condon opened his own club, Greenvich Village , where until 1967 he performed and recorded with many famous jazzmen. In 1958, the musician opened another club, which was closed only in 1985.
In 1948, Eddie Condon published an autobiography of We Called It Music , which aroused great interest among the readership. Led the weekly Pro and Condon column in the New York Journal-American .
The musician toured until 1971.
He died in 1973 in New York.
Style
| For decades, Chicago jazz has been preserved through the work of Eddie Condon Original text For decades, the Chicago style was kept alive through the work of Eddie Condon. |
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| His play was violently rhythmic and it was he who set the pace of the orchestras. He rarely took on a solo, preferring to spotlight other musicians, but it was still his group. Original text His playing was fiercely rhythmic, and he set the tempo for his outfits. He rarely took solos, and preferred to give the spotlight to the other players, but it was his band for sure. |
| Condon liked what he called “our special jazz brand,” by which he understood dixieland with a strict rhythmic beat. No tuba or banjo was ever used in his groups, which was surprising in light of the fact that Eddie's first instrument was the banjo Original text Condon loved what he called “our particular brand of Jazz”, by which he meant 'Dixieland Jazz' with a strong rhythmic beat. His groups never used tubas or banjos and this was curious because Eddie's very first instrument was the Banjo. |
Haruki Murakami wrote an essay about a musician in jazz portraits , saying that: “There are a lot of eccentrics in the history of jazz, and Eddie Condon was undoubtedly one of them. A great drinker, always impeccably dressed, with an impassive expression on his face, he was distinguished by excellent manners and a pungent sense of humor. His instrument was a completely unusual four-string guitar, and he never played solo. Condon did not recognize the countless musical styles that emerged after the war. He maintained his own jazz club and until his death played the good old Dixieland. ”
Selected Discography
- 1951: Eddie Condon's Chicago Doubles
- 1956: Louis Armstrong and Eddie Condon - At Newport
- 1956: Red Nichols And His Five Pennies
- 1956: Ivy League Jazz
- 1958: Confidentially ... It's Condon
- 1958: Dixieland Dance Party
- 1958: Jazz Olympus Series
- 1958: Eddie Condon Is Uptown Now!
- 1961: Chicago And All That Jazz!
- 1962: Condon A La Carte
- 1965: A Legend
- 1967: Gershwin Program Vol. 1 (1941-1945)
- 1969: Eddie Condon And All That Pjazz
- 1972: Jazz At The New School
- 1973: Eddie Condon & Bud Freeman
- 1973: Eddie Condon On Stage
- 1974: The Immortal Eddie Condon
- 1975: Tommy Dorsey On Radio
- 1975: All Stars Sessions
- 1976: The Eddie Condon Concerts Con Pee Wee Russell
- 1977: Eddie Condon In Japan
- 1977: Live At Eddie Condon's
- 1979: Windy City Seven And Jam Sessions At Commodore
- 1981: Here Is Eddie Condon At His Rare Of All Rarest Performances Vol. 1
- 1982: Eddie Condon & His Jazz Concert Orchestra
- 1984: Eddie Condon All Stars 1945
- 1984: Eddie Condon All Stars 1944
- 1984: Ringside At Condon's
- 1985: That Toddlin 'Town
- 1992: We Dig Dixieland Jazz
- 2009: Home Cooking
- 2010: Eddie Condon 1927-1964
Notes
- ↑ Eddie Condon
- ↑ 1 2 3 Eddie Condon @ All About Jazz
- ↑ http://britannica.com/biography/Eddie-Condon Britannic Encyclopedia