[Dixielandjazz] Re: Eddie Condon's Allstars on CBS - Mosaic Reissue

[Chuck Kercher]

  Hey Steve, Keep contributingt to the list and bringing good music to a lot
of people. Did you know Bill Simon that had the afternoon band at Condon? He
also was the music editor at the Reader's Digest and produced the music
books and records that we have all seen and appreciated. He also was a heck
of a sax player and one of the finest individuals I have ever met.
chuck----- Original Message -----
  From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
  To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
  Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:39 PM
  Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Eddie Condon's Allstars on CBS - Mosaic
Reissue


  > > "gerald nichols" <geraldnichols at bellsouth.net> wrote (polite snip)
  > > The talk about this set has brought me out of "lurkdom".  I have an LP
  > > (vinyl) on CBS ("For Promotion Only-CJ 45145) of the 1957 session. I
has
  > > previously issued as well as several previously unissued cuts.
  > >
  > > What a remarkable session.  I play it over and over and many of my
  > > collection sit there without being played ever again.  That music
"had"
  > > something!
  > >
  > > What surprises me is that I never "caught " the "sqeaks" etc. from Bob
  > > Wilber.  Guess I was enjoying the music too much to notice.
  >
  > As Jack Maheu was quoted in Sudhalter's "Lost Chords", "you should have
heard
  > it live." Those living in NYC at the time, or visiting, were treated to
that
  > exciting music plus a lot more, as often as they wanted to visit
Condon's
  > joint. You just cannot put that kind of music into words, or even on
records.
  > It was the most visceral, exciting jazz I've ever seen/heard.
  >
  > And why wouldn't it be in the mid 1950s, with Wild Bill, Hackett,
Butterfield,
  > McGarity, Cutshall, Dickenson, Schroeder, Cary, Mortillaro, Hucko, Hall,
  > Wilber, Wettling, Drootin, Condon, Gaskin, Lesberg and a whole bunch of
others?
  >
  > For many, this was Dixieland at it's peak, though as Bill Haesler
pointed out,
  > in 1957, Bob Wilber considered it a musical step backwards for him
inferring
  > that the "creativity" of Dixieland Jazz was past it's peak.
  >
  > Cheers,
  > Steve (squeaks? what squeaks) Barbone
  >
  >
  >
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