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...what both the record companies and the salesrooms were offering him, put out his own recordings. The customer was a rich young Manhattan game-chicken and hot fan named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...sessions in hotspots after closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan last year a Friday Club for jam sessions was founded by Paul Smith, adman and amateur guitarist, and Eddie Condon, band leader and top-notch guitarist. The Friday Club folded because its jam sessions, like many good ones, mingled Negroes and white men, and there were objections from patrons of the hotels where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam Session | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...heart interest introduced by the author, Guitarist Eddie Condon grated: "Bix never washed his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot v. Sweet | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

King of the atomic world at Westinghouse is Dr. Edward Uhler Condon, Coauthor of Quantum Mechanics and The Theory of Atomic Spectra, a distinguished theoretical physicist at Princeton before going to East Pittsburgh two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Westinghouse | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Approachable, colloquial and jolly, Dr. Condon is that delight of newsmen- a scientist who used to be a newsman himself. Born in New Mexico 37 years ago, son of a railroad civil engineer, he spent his childhood roving all over the West with his father. After a year at the University of California, he dropped out and went to work for an Oakland paper. But he soon decided that journalism was not his line, returned to the university and graduated with highest honors. He likes reading science books of all kinds, band music, complicated ice-cream sodas. His thick black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Westinghouse | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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