Showing posts with label Eddie Condon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eddie Condon. Show all posts

Monday, February 12, 2018

Eddie Condon - Royal Garden Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 114:22
Size: 261.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 4:54] 1. At The Jazz Band Ball
[ 2:28] 2. Chicago
[ 3:55] 3. Love Is Just Around The Corner
[ 3:15] 4. South Rampart Street Parade
[ 3:31] 5. Ol' Man River
[ 5:35] 6. Copenhagen
[ 3:21] 7. Someday Sweetheart
[ 5:06] 8. Royal Garden Blues
[ 3:16] 9. Oh Baby
[ 3:05] 10. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
[ 2:57] 11. Oh Sister,Ain't That Hot
[ 7:15] 12. There'll Be Some Changes Made
[ 4:37] 13. Little White Lies
[ 3:43] 14. The Sheik Of Araby
[ 3:46] 15. Jazz Me Blues
[ 5:27] 16. Sugar
[ 7:42] 17. Tin Roof Blues
[ 4:19] 18. Singin' The Blues
[ 5:41] 19. Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me)
[ 3:08] 20. I've Found A New Baby
[ 2:58] 21. Ballin' The Jack
[ 5:11] 22. Fidgety Feet
[ 3:00] 23. Save Your Sorrow
[ 3:04] 24. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll
[12:56] 25. How Come You Do Me Like You Do

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. ~ Scott Yanow

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Kenny Davern - A Night With Eddie Condon

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:39
Size: 166.3 MB
Styles: Clarinet jazz, Swing
Year: 1971/2006
Art: Front

[7:31] 1. At The Jazz Band Ball
[4:07] 2. Rosetta
[6:51] 3. Royal Garden Blues
[5:55] 4. Ain't Misbehavin'
[7:28] 5. Jazz Me Blues
[3:34] 6. Rose Of Washington Square
[4:56] 7. Muskrat Ramble
[4:57] 8. I Can't Get Started
[6:45] 9. China Boy
[7:28] 10. Rose Room
[5:22] 11. That's A-Plenty
[7:38] 12. St. Louis Blues

Though never an influential guitarist (he rarely soloed and frequently went silent altogether), Eddie Condon exerted a significant influence on jazz by virtue of the bands he led and his imposing stage presence. An acerbic wit and talented raconteur, Condon was, at his peak, a very popular figure on the Chicago jazz scene. His style of playing is closely associated with that city, though it will sound an awful lot like vintage New Orleans jazz to neophyte listeners. This live recording was made in a high school gym in Syracuse, NY, in April of 1971; the original reel-to-reel tapes were discovered in a basement and remastered before they could deteriorate further than they had. The resulting sound is acceptable, but the playing is brilliant. On this night, Condon was leading a sextet that featured Kenny Davern on clarinet and soprano sax, Bernie Privin on trumpet, Lou McGarity on trombone, and a rhythm section consisting of the exceptional pianist Dill Jones, bassist Jack Lesberg, and drummer Cliff Leeman. The band's renditions of such traditional jazz classics as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Muskrat Ramble," and "St. Louis Blues" are infused with light and heat, tremendously energetic and yet loosely swinging. Davern and Privin are both in especially fine form on "Royal Garden Blues." Highly recommended to fans of traditional jazz. ~Rick Anderson

A Night With Eddie Condon 

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Eddie Condon, Wild Bill Davison - Jam Session / Eddie's Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:23
Size: 115.3 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[10:29] 1. How Come You Do Me
[ 4:28] 2. Time After Time
[ 3:20] 3. Crazy Rhythm
[ 6:24] 4. Them There Eyes
[ 4:26] 5. Lazy Love
[ 3:03] 6. Sweet And Slow
[ 4:38] 7. Cute
[13:31] 8. Eddie's Blues-Ole Miss

For one of Eddie Condon's final recordings (and what was possibly his last studio session), he largely let cornetist Wild Bill Davison run the show. Two of the songs ("Time After Time" and "Crazy Rhythm") have arrangements for the septet, which includes Davison, trombonist Ed Hubble, clarinetist Johnny Mince and pianist Dill Jones, while the other pieces ("How Come You Do Me like You Do," "Them There Eyes" and "Eddie's Blues") are looser and more freewheeling. This LP contains enjoyable and somewhat historic music. ~Scott Yanow

Jam Session / Eddie's Blues

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Eddie Condon & His All-Star Dixieland Band - Confidentially, It's Condon

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:46
Size: 63.6 MB
Styles: Dixieland jazz
Year: 1958/2013
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. That's A-Plenty
[2:14] 2. Ballin' The Jack
[2:45] 3. Cherry
[2:29] 4. Wherever There's Love (There's You And Me)
[2:47] 5. Ja-Da
[3:05] 6. It's Been So Long
[2:43] 7. Royal Garden Blues
[2:50] 8. Sugar
[2:54] 9. Back In Your Own Backyard
[2:46] 10. Indiana

Nice memories, Eddie Condon was a legendary performer in the world of jazz. This recording ,unavailable for over 50 yrs, was done during the time he had a club in the 'Village'. Plenty of foot tapping jazz, but without the coarseness typical of some dixie groups. Not sure who the sidemen were, but everyone plays smooth n easy, nothings forced. Typical late 1950s era...a joy to hear. ~Cody

Confidentially, It's Condon

Friday, October 25, 2013

Eddie Condon - Eddie Condon In Japan

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 71:24
Size: 163.5 MB
Styles: Swing, Dixieland
Year: 1964/1977/2002
Art: Front

[1:40] 1. Introduction
[5:15] 2. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
[5:25] 3. Pee Wee's Blues
[3:47] 4. Stompin' At The Savoy
[5:20] 5. Rose Room
[3:57] 6. Manhattan
[3:39] 7. Caravan
[6:53] 8. Basin Street Blues
[3:49] 9. Three Little Words
[4:13] 10. I Would Do Anything For You
[3:56] 11. All Of Me
[6:07] 12. Am I Blue
[2:42] 13. When You're Smiling
[6:54] 14. Goin' To Chicago - Every Day - See See Rider
[7:39] 15. Royal Garden Blues

By 1964, Eddie Condon was not recording all that regularly; in fact this CD has his only recording from the 1963-67 period. Condon, who does some announcing and contributes some barely audible rhythm guitar, is joined by a particularly strong group consisting of trumpeter Buck Clayton, trombonist Vic Dickenson, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, pianist Dick Cary (doubling on alto horn), bassist Jack Lesberg and drummer Cliff Leeman. The band plays Dixieland and swing standards with spirit and enthusiasm while singer Jimmy Rushing takes four vocals including a previously unissued "Blues Medley." The CD reissue also adds "new" versions of "Caravan" and "Basin Street Blues"; other highlights include "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me," "Pee Wee's Blues," "Royal Garden Blues" and Dickenson's charming feature on "Manhattan." Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow

Eddie Condon In Japan