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We Called It Music (Paperback, New Ed)
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We Called It Music (Paperback, New Ed)
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Eddie Condon (1905-1973) pioneered a kind of jazz popularly known
as Chicago-Dixieland, though musicians refer to it simply as Condon
style. Played by small ensembles with driving beat, it was and is
an informal, exciting music, slightly disjointed and often
mischievous. The same could be said of Condon's autobiography, We
Called It Music, a book widely celebrated for capturing the
camaraderie of early jazz. Condon's wit was as legendary as the
music he boosted. Here is Condon on modern jazz: "The boopers flat
their fifths. We consume ours." On Bix Beiderbecke: "The sound came
out like a girl saying yes." On the New York subway: "It was my
first ride in a sewer." When his memoir was first published,to
great acclaim,in 1947, he was well known as a newspaper columnist,
radio personality, saloon keeper, guitarist, and bandleader. He was
the ideal man to come up with an insightful portrait of the early
days of white jazz, and his book offers nonpareil accounts of many
of the jazz greats of that era, including Beiderbacke, Fats Waller,
Jack Teagarden, Jimmy McPartland, Gene Krupa, Bessie Smith, Louis
Armstrong, and Bing Crosby.These were the days when jazz was
popularly associated with Paul Whiteman and Irving Berlin. Condon
considered true jazz an outlaw music and himself an outlaw. He and
his cohorts tried to get as close as possible to the black roots of
jazz, a scandalous thing in the'20s. Along the way he facilitated
one of the first integrated recording sessions. We Called It Music,
now published with an introduction by Gary Giddins that places the
book in historical context, remains essential reading for anyone
interested in the wild and restless beginnings of America's great
musical art, or in the wit and vinegar of Eddie Condon.
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