Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 2004/05

From: Bob Davenport <bob@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mystery jazz clarinetist
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:02:47 -0400

>The guitarist in photo 1 is indeed Eddie Condon as you have
>suggested. In the 1940s he had a place in Greewich Village
>called "Eddie Condon's" and I used to visit it. This appears to
>be the place but I would not swear by it. The others are unknown
>to me.

Thanks. I'd thought Condon, but John Chilton (eminent writer on jazz, and
fine trumpeter) and Wally Fawkes (excellent UK-based jazz clarinettist, for
those who don't know him), to whom I showed the original photos, both
immediately thought otherwise (' =8A and his hand's moving too fast for
Condon', added John Chilton). Looking again at the photos in Condon's We
Called it Music, Condon does seem to have a bit more hair in the centre of
his forehead than does the chap in the photo I posted. Tom Morgan (sometime
guitarist with Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan etc.) was tentatively suggested
by someone who runs a classic jazz guitar web site (who also thought it
wasn't Eddie C.), but I haven't been able to find a photo of him for
comparison purposes.

Bob D.

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