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Record Review: Eddie Condon Recalls By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatnres Writer The jazz career of Eddie Condon, 64, started with a Waterloo and ended yet, and he says because he never hired any rdelatives. Conon, who got his first union card at age 15 in Waterloo, Iowa, and owned his own hot jazz club in New York for 22 years, usually with a seven- piece band playing, currently is playing guitar again with Jazz at the Roosevelt Grill. kind of a gag, about not hiring blood Condon says, the way I feel about it. I hire a guy because he can do Playing In Roosevelt Grill Jazz followed Greatest Jazz into the Roosevelt Grill. The Grill, for 33 years the musical home of Guy Lombardo, now is making an effort to be a home for jazz.

Business seems to be booming, but Condon says he know whether jazz is coming back, nightclub business is picking up or just having a momentary flurry. have a pulse on it. been out of the nightclub business for three He sold Eddie three years ago because New York night life had dwindled. Latin Quarter is no more. The Copa used to have a line of girls from here to Cuba and if one 9 over 18 she was a hag.

Now the line is no more. I had my own saloon for 22 years, 13 in the Village and nine uptown, and not bad, especially these days when saloons open up and close before you can get drunk in Condon got his performing start as a boy, playing banjo at lodge meetings in Chicago Heights, 111, At 15 he joined Hollis Peavy and his Jazz Bandits, doing one-night stands in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. got my first union card in Waterloo, Iowa, and I could play music, but read music or swear. We traveled, six of us, with our instruments and personal baggage, in one car. Mrs, Peavy, who played piano, was in the car so everyone was wonderfully well-behaved.

But we used to swear when we got out for gas. had wonderful mud in those states. I call those my BC Condon switched from banjo to rhythm always played rhythm and never taken a during Prohibition. ran out of money and a landlord raised cane, so I gave him the But he refuses to go on from guitar to electric guitar, with one of those little jokes he has ready for most occasions, I ever switch to electric, Fm holding out for the First Record In 1927 Asked about the first record he ever cut, in 1927, Condon says, was a historical turn in my life. On this date we had Bud Freeman, tenor sax, now with the Greatest Jazz Band, Frank Teschemacher, clarinet, Joe Sullivan, piano.

Gene Krupa, drums, Jimmy jMcPartland, cornet, Jim Lani- igan, bass, who later joined the Chicago Symphony, Red McKenzie, comb. For all of ua it was our first record date. I was the oldest guy in the band. was the first record made with a full set of drums. Before, it was just a snare drum and a couple of cymbals.

We went in I with a bass drum. I talked Tom the boss, into trying lit, and it wreck the ma- I They made backed with and Condon is unable to express how excited Thursday. February 12, 1970 PAPER HANGING PAINTING Otcar E. Keefer Jr. 511 W.

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Phone 632.5250 i EDDIE CONDON two-week visit. It turned out to be some He started playing at in Greenwich Village, in 1937, with Bobby Hackett. Pee Wee Russell and George Brunis, and was in and out of until he opened Eddie in 1945. Group Listed they all were, hearing their first The group playing in playback. Rockwell called them now, the Jazz Greats, includes back a week later and they cut Kay Winding, Roy Eldridge, and Buddy Morrow, Zoot Sims, A1 Cohn, Budd Johnson, Milt Hin- Callcd Music ton, Ro.ss Tompkins, Mousie Al- Condon would rather call the exander and Jim Hall, i style of music they were playing Condon and his wife, who instead of or have two grown daughters, live in the Village.

Condon is proud of arranging He says. I first opened what may have been the firstlmy saloon in I made the session of black and white musicians, in 1929. There were only a handful of mixed sessions ultil 1933. Condon set up two in 1929 and two in one in each of those years as the Mound City Blue Blowers and I the others under his own name, mistake of listing Eddie Restaurant in the phone book and right below that, the residence. Some guy would get a little loaded and in the middle of the night call the apartment, leave my umblella or my wife still He also was the only white mu-, sician on a celebrated record next book that came out, session of Fats in 1929.

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