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...sessions were fairly private affairs till Eddie Condon began to put them on as a program at Manhattan's Town Hall (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942). For two seasons Guitarist Condon has led small, impromptu combinations of simmering jazz talent in Saturday afternoons of the rarest syncopated heat. Last week Condon went on the air for the first of 13 weekly broadcasts (Blue Network, Sat. 3:30 E.W.T.). His opening burst, a wow, featured such vintage improvisers as Trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Trombonist Milfred "Miff" Mole, Clarinetist Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, Pianist James P. "Jimmy" Johnson...
...done. In late November 1941, General Chennault sent me to Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed me to burn my A.V.G. papers and enter civilian internment with false papers as a newspaperman. I was thus very fortunately repatriated...
...great jazz pianist, Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, who died last week (see p. 70) was just the man to do it. He was Fat's great friend and prime pianistic inspiration, James Price Johnson. Genial, blue-black Jimmie worked out on a Steinway at one of Guitarist Eddie Condon's rousing jazz concerts in Manhattan's Town Hall, played a medley of Fats Waller's tunes including Honeysuckle Rose, Clothesline Ballet, Ain't Misbehavin'. He played them the way Fats would have wanted them played...
...program notes were issued at the brief concert of November 9, 1927, but if you've heard a McKenzie-Condon record you know it was jazz, and the boys didn't give a damn who found out. It was direct and to the point--strictly six men ganging up on a flock of instruments in a fight to the finish...
...sides were made--"Sugar" and "China Boy"--and the record was released under the name of McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans. William the Red McKenzie acted as contractor and Albert Condon played his 4-cable banjo as only Edward Condon can play it. This was easy for him, as Albert is Edward and Edward is Albert, except to his friends, who know him as Eddie...