Eddie Condon was on of the young 'White' Chicagoans who, during the 1920s, were instrumental in creating a new, hard driving type of "Chicago Dixieland Jazz". His career started at just age 17 when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was the dixieland revival? There was never just one way to play jazz. The '20s had room for Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and Bix Beiderbecke, the '30s for Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, and ...

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 ...