Eddy Wiggins (1904-1984)

Edgar Wiggins, natif de la Nouvelle-Orléans, quitte Chicago en 1933 pour s’installer à Paris. D’abord correspondant du Chicago Defender, il couvre la scène Jazz à Paris pour la revue nouvellement créée Jazz Hot jusqu’en 1939. A la libération, Eddy Wiggins devient le correspondant Jazz de plusieurs magazines américains et fréquente les plus grands artistes de l’époque : Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie et Count Basie.

Edgar Wiggins was born in New Orleans, then lived in Chicago, which he left in 1933 to move to Paris. Staring out as a correspondent for the Chicago Defender, he then covered the Jazz scene in Paris for the newly founded review Jazz Hot until 1939. After the liberation of France in 1944, Eddy Wiggins became the jazz correspondent for several American magazines and frequented the greatest artists of the time: Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie and Count Basie were all his friends.