[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz on Riverwalk Jazz this week

[Donald Mopsick]

Special press release just for DJML:

Joining us this week—photographer, author and record producer Hank
O'Neal, who collaborated on "Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz." Also,
daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories. She paints this
picture of her father at the height of his career:

"A couple facts about Eddie: he didn’t own a watch; he never did,
never carried a wallet and had absolutely no ID on him wherever he
went. When he went to Toots Shoors, or to any bar in NYC in the ‘40s
and ‘50s they knew who he was. Inside his Cavanaugh (hat) his name was
inscribed in the hat band— Eddie Condon. He’d order a couple of
drinks, he’d take his hat off, he’d show it to the bartender and that
was it, he was good to go. His hat was his ID. That’s what it was like
for Eddie in New York in the heyday."

Musical guests featured on the show: Dick Hyman, Stephanie Nakasian,
Bob Barnard and the late Bobby 'Lips' Levine (wish he were still with
us).

For those of you new to Riverwalk Jazz, you can stream the program at
http://www.riverwalkjazz.org.

I helped a little bit putting this compilation show together, but I
play bass on all the tracks.

More here: http://www.riverwalkjazz.org/jazznotes/condon/

By the way, Riverwalk Jazz has a Twitter account here:

https://twitter.com/#!/RiverwalkJazz

and a Facebook page here:

http://www.facebook.com/riverwalkjazz

I invite you to pleasantly "fritter" away a perfectly good hour, as in
"combining twitter and facebook." If you add our YouTube channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RiverwalkJazzRadio

and combine all 3, you get "You Twit Face." :—)

mopo