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Condon was born in Goodland, Indiana. After some time playing ukulele, he switched to banjo and was a professional musician by 1921. He was based in Chicago for most of the 1920s, and played with such jazz notables as Bix BeiderbeckeBix Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 August 6, 1931) was a notable jazz cornet player. Leon Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa to a strict middle-class family. As a teenager he would sneak off to the banks of the Mississippi to listen to the bands pl.

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From the late 1930s on he was a regular at the Manhattan jazz club Nick's. The sophisticated variation on Dixieland music which Condon and his colleagues created there came to be nicknamed "Nixieland."

Condon also did a series of jazz radio broadcasts from New York Town Hall which were nationally popular.

From 1945 through 1967 he ran his own New York jazz club, Eddie Condon's.

In 1948 his autobiography We Called It Music was published. The book has many interesting and entertaining anecdotes about musicians Condon worked with.

Eddie Condon toured and appeared at jazz festivals through 1971.

He died in New York City.