Hot Jazz: The Guide To Swing Music
Author: Panassie, Hugues
Title: Hot Jazz: The Guide To Swing Music
Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1936)
Edition: First edition in English, "especially revised by the author"
Description: First edition in English, "especially revised by the author" 8vo. xvi, 363 pp. Index. Translated by Lyle & Eleanor Dowling. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's brown & yellow dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremitie with 1/4" loss to spine head; small chip & short closed tear to upper front edge; small loss to upper rear edge; small stain on upper page edges).
First published in 1934 in Paris, here is the complete, authoritative work on swing...its great performers, its great recordings, its great achievements. Hugues Panassié (1912 - 1974) was an influential French critic, record producer, and impresario of traditional jazz. In a changing world of jazz, Panassié was an ardent exponent of traditional jazz — strictly Dixieland. He harbored a particular love of style similar to that of Louis Armstrong from the 1930s. Panassié criticized West Coast jazz as inauthentic, partly because most musicians were white and also sounded white. - wiki.
Seller ID: 19429
Subject: Arts & Photography
