Hugues Panassié

Hugues Panassié (1912 - 1974) was a critic and producer of Jazz French. He was an admiror of the style of jazz " hot" as played by Louis Armstrong in the Years 1930. He regarded the Bebop as a form of music distinct from the jazz.

Biography

He discovers the jazz before the Années 1930, and passed the remainder of his life to be made known this music in France by melting in 1932 the Hot Club of France. Despite everything it succeeds before very making discover the jazz with the Americans.

During the Second world war, it used the discs of jazz like a challenge with the authority Nazi in France. His/her friend Mezz Mezzrow tells one of his performances in his autobiography " Really the Blues " ( the rage of living ): It presented a disc the censure Nazi labelled " The Sadness of Saint-Louis" , and Hugues explained to them patiently that it was a French traditional sad song speaking about poor and unhappy Louis XIV. What the cerberus of the culture did not know, it is that under this label the label Victor original hid, with Louis Armstrong as artist and the true name of the piece St Louis Blues .

It financed many recordings of artists like Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier.

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