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EDDIE CONDON |
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| Eddie Condon wasn't an important instrumentalist or
bandleader. He appeared on several recordings but his importance was the creation of
the Condon - style also known as the Chicago-Dixieland. As a child he learned to play the ukulele. He later learned the tenor banjo then in 1921 he took up the plectrum banjo. In the mid-1930s he again switched instruments this time playing the plectrum - guitar. The list of well know jazz artists he performed with is endless but includes Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Fat's Waller. |
| Discography: Eddie Condon's World Of Jazz Columbia PG 31564 Bibliography: "We Called It Music" Da Capo Press - New York |
