He was called “the indestructible Wild Bill”, and when he died at his home in Santa Barbara on 14 November 1989, the Eddie Condon school was finally closed. Bill had been its most palpably colourful manifestation, his pillar-of-fire-in-the-night cornet pleasing Al Capone so much that the gangster went out of his way to make sure … Continue reading Still Clinging To The Wreckage 07/21