Word: condonement
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...Eddie Condon once tried to tell a New York Daily Newsman, in the plainest language he could muster, about his troubles in making the "real jazz" pay enough for tea for two, or keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...
Last week, in spite of all, Guitarist Eddie Condon got a nightclub of his own, where for the first time he was "eligible on both sides of the bar." Eddie Condon's, an incongruously plush spot, opened its doors in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and let out some of the loudest and longest renditions of Tea for Two and I've Found a New Baby to be heard since Prohibition...
...George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop," Eddie said...
...Condon's men worked until 4 a.m. Sometimes Condon sat in, picking solemnly and matter-of-factly at his guitar. He doesn't play as much as he used to, now that he's a bandleader, but he has been around when some of the best jazz has been played. Condon acts as mother hen to as undependable a brood of gifted musicians as James Petrillo has in his roster. Eddie got them together first at Town Hall jazz concerts. They seemed willing to follow him-even when they couldn't follow everything he said...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...