Eddie Condon
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Albert Edwin Condon was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in Chicago jazz, he also played piano and sang. He also owned a self-named night club in New York City.
Condon in 1946
Eddie Condon guitar from the Music Division at the Library of Congress in 2025
Record label with accompaniment by the Eddie Condon Quintette
Bill Davison
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William Edward Davison, nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where th
Eddie Condon
…himself and emphasized his view by calling his first autobiography We Called it Music. By this time, his regular circle of musical associates included Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett, George Brunies, Edmond Hall, and Pee Wee Russell. In 1939, he appeared with "Bobby Hacket and Band" in the Warner Brothers & Vitaphone…
Davison performing at Eddie Condon's, New York, c. June 1946