Tuesday, October 27, 2009

At Town Hall – Eddie Condon's Concerts

This series presents excerpts from Dixieland Jazz concerts produced by Ernest Anderson and directed by Eddie Condon, directly from the Town Hall in New York City in broadcasts by the National Broadcasting Corporation Radio - Blue Network Broadcast Series.


Despite this series of concerts to be known Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts and some transmissions were made from the Ritz Theater on Broadway site leased by Blue Network as a studio for many programs and this concert was the case. In fact what happened as incredible and unbelievable racism was a lack of sponsorship to rent the Town Hall as a black musician would act together with others - Cozy Cole and the usual sponsor, Chesterfield cigarettes, declined sponsorship thinking it would be fine, claiming that many regions in the country, since the program was broadcast on a national level, it envisaged the integration of races and therefore might boycott the sponsor, and such ...

This presentation was attended by new members into the group as trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Dick Cary, trombonist Miff Mole and clarinet Edmond Hall, and drummer Cozy Cole and bassist Jack Lesberg. Muggsy Spanier cornet as the special guest. After the rapid opening speaker Fred Robbins - At Sundown (Walter Donaldson) is performed by the whole group. It follows the announcement by the Condon Edmond Hall one of the great New Orleans clarinetists in It's Been So Long (Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller) only with the trio Schroeder, Lesberg, Cole Condon and more naturally.

We end with the great cornetist Muggsy Spanier and the group Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (Grant Clarke / Arthur Johnson / George Meyer / Roy Turk).
The whole group that acts consists of: Eddie Condon (gt and leader), Max Kaminsky and Dick Cary (tp) Miff Mole (tb), Ernie Caceres (bar sax), Eugene Schroeder (pi), Jack Lesberg (bx) and Cozy Cole (bat). Host: Muggsy Spanier (cornet).
Recording: 7/outubro/1944 - Ritz Theater, New York City
Source: CD Jazzology - JCE1011 -1992 - USA
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