Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz

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This was my first book; it was Eddie Condon's last. Record producer Michael Brooks introduced me to Les Pockell at St. Martin's Press and within weeks Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz was underway. I worked with Eddie for the better part of two years, organizing material and coaxing stories out of him. The book was published in September 1973, but Eddie died in August. All he saw were blueprints.  Columbia released an album with the same title. Beware of autographed copies. This book contains my first published photographs and led me to a nineteen year relationship with Berenice Abbott, but that's another story.