[Dixielandjazz] Condon as Watters-esque?

[Stephen G Barbone]

> "M J (Mike) Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>
>> That is as close as you can get to what went on at Condon's every  
>> night during the 40s, 50s, and 60s, until Eddie Condon died. IMO,  
>> that's why he held onto a huge audience.
>
> How very Watters-esque of him to put the horns behind the rhythm....

Maybe the other way around, Mike? Hear Condon w/Mckenzie circa 1927 at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpaJYuAn6Do&feature=related

and isn't that  Condon? with Red Nichols?  Rare Condon vocals, circa  
1929, if that is him,  see:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uuj8hqDuPRU&feature=related

Rhythm out front, back then.. Bill Haesler, please provide players in  
the 1929 vitaphone.

Watters was just following Condon's lead. <grin>

How young they were back then, blazing the trail.

BTW, didn't Dixieland come a long way for Condon from these early  
sides, compared with what he was playing in the 1950s.  Times do  
change. Viva la difference, IMO of course.

Cheers
Steve Barbone
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