Eddie Condon All Stars (2/2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Condon toured Britain in 1957 with a band including Wild Bill Davison, Cutty Cutshall, Gene Schroeder and George Wettling. His last tour was in 1964, when he took a band to Australia and Japan. Condon's men, on that tour, were a roll-call of top mainstream jazz musicians: Buck Clayton (trumpet), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Bud Freeman (tenor sax), Dick Carey (piano and alto horn), Jack Lesberg (bass), Cliff Leeman (drums), Jimmy Rushing (vocals). A nice touch was that Billy Banks, a vocalist who had recorded with Condon and Pee Wee Russell in 1932, and had lived in obscurity in Japan for many years, turned up at one of the 1964 concerts: Pee Wee asked him "have you got any more gigs?".
In 1948 his autobiography We Called It Music was published. The book has many interesting and entertaining anecdotes about musicians Condon worked with. Eddie Condon's Treasury of Jazz (1956) was a collection of articles by various writers co-edited by Condon and Richard Gehman.
A latter-day collaborator, clarinetist Kenny Davern, described a Condon gig: "It was always a thrill to get a call from Eddie and with a gig involved even more so. I remember eating beforehand with Bernie (Previn; trumpet) and Lou (McGarity; trombone) and everyone being in good spirits. There was a buzz on, we'd all had a taste and there was a great feel to the music."
Eddie Condon toured and appeared at jazz festivals through 1971. He died in New York City.
He is survived by his daughter Maggie Condon and his only grandchild Michael Repplier, who both live in Greenwich Village in New York City. It has been falsely reported that he has another grandson, Zach Condon, lead singer and instrumentalist of the band Beirut, but this is incorrect.
References to Condon are common in the BBC Radio 4 parody series Down the Line.
(extract from Wikipedia 2011)
Eddie was my great uncle by marriage, though I met him only once when I was 11 or 12 when he stayed with us during a gig in Chicago with Art Hodes. I IDOLIZED him cause he was soooo funny. My mom had lots of stories about him!
These old guys show others how to do it!!!
I'm all about Blues . But I'm diggin' some Jazz today ! This music is jammin' .
Muskrat Ramble is my favorite song
I SEE IT'S BUZZY ON DRUM.S WHICH I THOUGHT. I FOLLOWED HIM IN THE SALT CITY DIXIELAND BAND. I DID NOT KNOW HOW GREAT A DRUMMER HE WAS, TILL I SAW THIS VIDEO!
Wonderful!!!!!
Thanks for posting this, and they great notes. The Condon books mentioned are all great reads. Another great book of this about the era is REMEMBERING BIX, by Ralph Berton. Ralph's brother played with Paul Whitman, Red Nichols and others. He was a drummer and invented the Hi Hat. Ralph was a grew up to became a writer and this book reflects on his child hood with Bix playing baseball with him, or playing Debussy on the piano, and much more. Very sweet and loving book.
That's Music!
Just loved that version of Muskrat Ramble
Cuty Cutshall is at his best on this one!
Muskat!
Excelentes videos de un jazz que siempre va a tener vigencia: Alguien me podria subir a Eddie Condon All Stars-When a woman loves a man. Desde ya muchas gracias
The pitch and tempo could be high because the alternating current in the UK is at 50 cycles per second, so, if the motor on the video-recorder was of the hysteresis-synchronous type, the tape-speed on recording may have been slow. Then, when it was played back on a US 60 cycle per second machine, also with a hysteresis-synchronous motor, it would have sounded fast and high.
Pretty spot on. This encoding has been slowed down about 5% when I copied it from the Australian VHS source tape to improve image and stability when upscaling it from 320x240 to 1080i WMV for uploading to TH-cam. I have many old VHS tapes that have all sorts of speed and sound synch issues with conversions from old 24fps to 25fps PAL video. Similar issues with some conversions from 60 Hz NTSC material to 50 Hz PAL. Video image can be improved but sound suffers. TH-cam being mainly a visual medium I have a tendancy to "over-cook" the video coversions to improve video image at the detriment of the source sound.
Well, folks . . . speaking of great jazz books: if you can find them, check out George Simon's 1967 "The Big Bands", and Dizzy Gillespie's memoir "To Be Or Not To Bop."
I've spent several years trying to land a copy of Charles Mingus' blistering autobiography, "Beneath The Underdog", in the modern, UNCENSORED version.
And remember what Nietzsche said: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Gary in Arizona
Back in the day when dixieland musicians with talent were broke!
pros at work---ain't they great!!!! jazz, bring it on!!
Yup. AND that's Peanuts Hucko on the stick.
Its Buzzy Drootin on drums not Cliff Leeman
Ich habe das Buch von Eddie Condon "Wir nannten es Musik" Eddie soll ja auf der Gitarre nie ein Solo gespielt haben.
Thanks for posting. Strange, all this music is 1/2 step high (can tell by looking at Cutshall's slide - plus I know they're not playing Royal Garden in B natural, or the blues that starts this video in B). Can anyone explain? I suppose a film at the wrong speed, being analogue, would raise the pitch, too. Too bad, might have a better appreciation for tempos, which on some tunes sound a little quick.
You're spot on. The original Australian VHS source video has been slowed down about 5% when I encoded it to improve and stabilise the image to enable it to be de-interlaced and upscaled from 320x240 pixels to the 1080i
Peanuts Hucko
The original performance is captured on film with stereo sound, not on Ampex video tape recorder. May be that's incorrect reel-to-reel speed during re-recording on cinematic (film to video)?
Good pickup. This encoding has been slowed down about 5% when I copied it from the Australian VHS source tape to improve image and stability when upscaling it from 320x240 to 1080i WMV for uploading to TH-cam. I have many old VHS tapes that have all sorts of speed and sound synch issues with conversions from old 24fps to 25fps PAL video. Similar issues with some conversions from 60 Hz NTSC material to 50 Hz PAL. Video image can be improved but sound suffers.
What's the name of the first tune?
Stealing Apples the Fats Waller tune is the one their playing continuing 2/2 from 1/2.
Drummer in this video is Danny Barcelona.
IT SAYS GEORGE WETTLING. DANNY COULD NEVER PLAY DIXELAND LIKE THIS.
+Leonard Seed SORRY MY ERROR.
bob boscarato This is the great Buzzy Drootin on drums. Danny Barcelona could never play like this and certainly didn't look anything like Buzzy Drootin.
No, it's Buzzy Drootin.