Eddie Condon's was the name of three successive jazz venues in New York run by jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader

Eddie Condon Albert Edwin Condon (November 16, 1905 – August 4, 1973) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in Chicago jazz, he also played piano and sang. Early years Condon was born in Goodland, Indiana, the son of J ...

from 1945 until the mid-1980s.Deffaa, Chip (1992) ''Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen'', p. xiii. University of Illinois Press
At Google Books. Retrieved 17 July 2013. In 1975,

Red Balaban Leonard "Red" Balaban (December 22, 1929 - December 29, 2013) was an American jazz tubist and sousaphonist. He also played banjo, stand-up bass, slide trombone, ukulele and rhythm guitar. Balaban resided as an adult in the Florida panhandle, ...

took over the management of the club.

Ed Polcer Ed Polcer (born February 10, 1937 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States) is an American jazz cornetist, bandleader, festival director, club owner, and mentor of young musicians. He has been described as a "melodic mellow-toned cornetist with an ...

was also a part-owner at the time of the club's closing. The first venue was located on West 3rd Street in

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. The club then moved to 52nd Street near Sixth Avenue, the present site of the CBS headquarters building, The final venue was on the south side of East 54th Street, east of Second Avenue.

House bands/musicians

*1947-1951: drummer

Buzzy Drootin Benjamin "Buzzy" Drootin (April 22, 1920 – May 21, 2000) was an American jazz drummer. Career Drootin was born near Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, with his family when he was five. His father played the cl ...

*1948-1956: pianist

Ralph Sutton Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri. He was a stride pianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. Biography Sutton was born in Hamburg, Missouri, ...

*1957: pianist

Johnny Varro Johnny Varro (born 1930) is a pianist with roots in the swing (genre), swing style of jazz. He is also a leader and arranger. Commodore Music Shop Varro was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began studying piano at the age of ten. During his teena ...

*Cornetist

led the last house band.Yanow, Scot
Ed Polcer biography

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. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

Live recordings at Condon's

*1954: ''Ringside at Condon's'' (Savoy Jazz) -

Wild Bill Davison William Edward Davison (January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989), nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they p ...

, Eddie Condon,

Edmond Hall Edmond Hall (May 15, 1901 – February 11, 1967) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. Over his career, Hall worked extensively with many leading performers as both a sideman and bandleader and is possibly best known for the 1941 cha ...

and others *1955: ''Midnight at Condon's'' -

Bud Freeman Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone, but also the clarinet. Biography In 1922, Freeman and some friends from high sch ...

's All Star Orchestra (Mercury/EmArcy) *''Jammin' at Condon's'' - Eddie Condon and His All-Stars (Columbia) *''A Night at Eddie Condon's'' - Eddie Condon and His Orchestra (Decca) *''Night at the New Eddie Condon's'' -

& Cats

References

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