We Called It Music A Generation of Jazz

by Condon, Eddie

• ISBN13: 9780306804663
• ISBN10: 0306804662
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-03-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

We Called it Music is an autobiography of Eddie Condon the jazz musician. Eddie Condon pioneered a kind of jazz popularly known as Chicago-Dixieland, as other musicians would call it Condon style jazz.This book offers nonparallel accounts of many of the jazz greats of that era such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jimmy McPartland and many more.

Author Biography

Albert Edwin Condon (1905-1973) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in Chicago jazz, he also played piano and sang.

Table of Contents

A Pair of English Shoes	p. 1
Narration	p. 13
Momence	p. 32
Chicago Heights	p. 53
Peavey's Jazz Bandits	p. 67
Young Man With Cap	p. 82
Narration	p. 98
Chicago--1924	p. 106
Education and Bix and Bessie	p. 118
35th and Calumet	p. 130
Prosperity	p. 137
The Three Deuces	p. 149
Narration	p. 162
"The Poorest 7-Piece Orchestra on Earth"	p. 167
Handful of Harlem	p. 180
The Blue Blowers	p. 192
A Birthday for Joe	p. 219
Panic and Pancreatitis	p. 236
Nick's and the Revolution	p. 256
Summa Cum Laude	p. 270
Town Hall	p. 280
Narration	p. 294
The Chicago Bands	p. 301
Eddie Condon on Records--An Informal Discography	p. 309
Major and Minor Chords	p. 329
Index	p. 347
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