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Hugues Panassié
Hugues Panassié (27 February 1912 in Paris – 8 December 1974 in Montauban) was an influential French critic, record producer, and impresario of traditional jazz.
Career.
Panassié was born in Paris. When he was fourteen, he was stricken with polio, which limited his extracurricular physical activities. He took up the saxophone and fell in love with jazz in the late 1920s.
Panassié was the founding president of the Hot Club de France (1932).
During World War II, the
publication has endured years as the official magazine of the Hot Club of France.
Editors in chief.
- Hugues Panassié: 1935-1939 & 1945–1946
- Panassié, a prolific and influential jazz critic, sought to define "true jazz" for France as being strictly Dixieland. To that end, he ridiculed some of the leading jazz musicians of the day. Panassié also ardently expressed the view that jazz played by whites was artificial jazz, though he lauded a few whites for their ability to replicate "true jazz