China Boy

McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans (Eddie Condon) · 1927

Context

Cut in Chicago on December 8, 1927, for Okeh, this track is one of the manifestos of the Chicago style played by young white musicians: Jimmy McPartland, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan, and Gene Krupa. Eddie Condon, on banjo, would later become the great animator of traditional New York jazz.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Chicago. Among the origins and influences of Chicago: New Orleans jazz, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917).

Sources

• adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Eddie Condon

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