[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Condon

[Jack Mitchell]

Steve Voce wrote


"  The absentee who one would have expected to find in any Condon 
session was Bud Freeman. His omission was probably because of an 
incident from 1939. Bud’s Summa Cum Laude band with Condon had been very 
successful in the musical ‘Swingin’ The Dream’. After its short run, Bud 
was asked to take the band on tour. He dropped Eddie from the band 
because Eddie was drunk most of the time and Bud thought he would spoil 
the tour. Condon held a grudge for the rest of his life, although it 
melted a bit as they both got older. "

                 In fact the reason was that Bud was in the US army 
stationed in the Aleutian Islands in the north Pacific ocean - Eddie has 
stated that himself. As soon as Bud was demobbed Eddie started using him 
again, as from January 1946.

                 Jack Mitchell