[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Condon Centenial / Wild Bill & Strings

[Steve barbone]

Dear Bill (Haesler)

Thanks for the Condon post.

The man and his various bands were revered in NYC until he died. There was
no "revival" in NYC because Condon had always been there from the 1930's on,
playing the music to an appreciative audience. First at various jam sessions
and joints, then regularly at Nick's and then at his own joint.

Among those musos who played there with him were: comb; Red McKenzie,
trombonists; Teagarden,  Gowans, Cutshall, McGarity, Gifford, Rudd,
Higginbotham, Brunis, Mole, Dickenson: trumpeter/cornetists; Butterfield,
Davison, Sudhalter, Fine, Spanier, Kaminski, Allen, Hackett, Windhurst,
Berrigan, Erwin, Eldridge, Bose, Page, Shavers, McPartland, Braff, Lawson,
bassists; Foster, Traeger, Haggart, Shapiro, Lesberg, Reeds; Bechet,
Russell, Hawkins, Dorsey, Cacerees, Hall, Wilber, Marsala, Bigard, Freeman,
Pianists; Schroeder, Stacy, Sullivan, Shutt, Cary, Wellstood,Smith, Buskin,
Waller, Bowman, Drummers; Krupa, Wettling, Leeman, Fatool, Singers; Wiley

No color lines there.

How lucky I was to be there too. Wow. Right time, right place to hear/play
some of the most powerful form of Dixieland ever.

Eddie Condon died in 1975, still quite popular in the USA. Perhaps the
intensity of the music died with him.

WBD with strings? Anne Davison said he loved that work. She also said Wild
Bill wanted to be known as "more than just a Dixieland player." IMO, he was
certainly a complete musician.

Cheers,
Steve