Eddie had excellent qualifications for a nightclub operator, - he was a sociable man who could hold his liquor, and was a very fine musician with many musician friends who could come in and help out.

Albert Edwin Condon (16 November 1905 – 4 August 1973), better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early ...

Thus Eddie Condon must have welcomed the LP era, which allowed him to indulge in the lengthy jam sessions allowed in clubs and concert halls. The two early '50s records featured on the this ...

But when big swing bands ruled, in the late '30s, such partisans of loose small-group improvising as guitarist Eddie Condon grumbled that jazz had taken a wrong turn toward regimentation.

Leonard J. (“Red”) Balaban, former owner of the New York jazz club Eddie Condon's and a legendary musician who played a key role in revitalizing America's interest in Dixieland jazz in the ...

Condon was born in Indiana and was an adequate rhythm guitarist on the Chicago jazz scene in the mid-1920s, but his real prowess then, and until his death in 1973, was as an entrepreneur or, to be ...

The chalkboard used to announce the evening`s gig at Eddie Condon`s Jazz Club in midtown Manhattan carried a touch of gallows humor the founder would have appreciated. ”Tonight: The Bull Doze… ...