Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon
Albert Edwin Condon, better known as Eddie Condon, was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
enters
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
music glasses broken
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?
music girl phrases
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
guy jazz ends
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
sound female jazz
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
song play down-and
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
men play shoes
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
jazz bourbon
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
hangover two juice
For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
cases said clarinet
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
music drink flats
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.