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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Gershwin: Jazz Concert (Eddie Condon and his orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Condon's guitar gives rhythm to Jack Teagarden's fine trombone, Bobby Hackett's clean, relaxed trumpet and Singer Lee Wiley's blue do on Someone to Watch over Me and The Man I Love. Along for the ride are Condonites Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and others. Performance: good...
Academicians were scandalized when Artist Goya found favor with King Charles IV of Spain. An accomplished duelist, harpsichordist and guitar player, as well as an unrivaled Casanova, Goya delighted the ladies and enraged the courtiers. His intuition was as astonishing as his lack of tact. "You look like the kind of man who goes about [burning] harmless prostitutes," he once remarked to an amiable old monk, who later became a prominent member of the Inquisition. His amorous ferocity was equally pronounced. "If I loved a woman, I shouldn't hesitate to use intimidation if all other methods failed...
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...
...Night at Charlie's. Beechers' gave an open house for him when he got famous. Hot pastrami was served, a trombone, guitar and saxophone trio played When I Grow Too Old to Dream, and in the back room Bummy obligingly ruined a couple of sparring partners for the entertainment of close friends...
History of Jazz: The "Solid" South (Capitol Records, 10 sides). Vol. I of a new firm's ambitious four-part survey of American jazz. With the exception of Leadbelly, whose piano, guitar and vocalizing are invulnerable, the rest is mostly men of the '40s trying to play the way the jazzmen did in the '20s. Performance: fair...