Eddie Condon Allstars

USA

Born: 16 November 1905

Died: 04 August 1973

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70

Genres: Jazz

Styles: Big Band, Big Band/Swing, Dixieland, Early Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Swing

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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 r...

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