Eddie Condon (November 16, 1905 – August 4, 1973) was one of the gang of young white Chicago jazz musicians in the 1920s. He started out playing banjo with Hollis Peavey’s Jazz Bandits when he was 17. He worked with several members of the famed Austin High School Gang in the 1920s. In 1927 he co-led with Red McKenzie the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans record that was popular among white Chicago jazz musicians.

After organizing some other record sessions, Condon switched to guitar and moved to New York in 1929, where he worked with Red Nichols’ Five Pennies and Red McKenzie’s Mound City Blue Blowers. He participated in several recording sessions including one with Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom 5 in 1929. In 1938 he led some sessions for the Commodore label and he became a star. He had a nightly gig at Nick’s in New York City from 1937 to 1944. From 1944 to 1945 he led a series of recordings at Town Hall that were broadcast weekly on the radio. Condon opened his own club in 1945, and recorded for Columbia in the 1950s.

Also see: Eddie Condon: Profiles in Jazz

McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans	Eddie Condon Quartet
Eddie Condon and his Footwarmers	Eddie’s Hot Shots
Eddie Condon and his Orchestra	Eddie Condon and his Windy City Seven
Eddie Condon and his Band	Eddie Condon and his Chicagoans

Title	Director or Company	Year
Is Everybody Happy?	Archie Mayo	1929
Nine O’Clock Folks	Vitaphone	1930

The Eddie Condon Scrapbook Of Jazz, by Eddie Condon, St. Martin’s Press, 1973

We Called It Music: A Generation Of Jazz, by Eddie Condon, New York: H. Holt, 1947