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8vo. 145, [7] pp. Publisher's printed wrappers; front wrapper chipped and worn, with loss to corners and old cellotape repair to verso A remarkable and telling association, inscribed from the French critic, traditional jazz impresario and founding member of the Hot Club de France, Hugues Panassié (1912-1974) to the legendary American record producer and talent scout who discovered or promoted an astonishing roster of jazz, rock and folk talent, John Hammond (1910-1987): "To my dear John Hammond / who certainly should have done better / Hugues Panassié."The enigmatic inscription is perhaps a reference to Hammond's championing of musicians, such as Benny Goodman, who Panassié despised, as he did nearly all white jazz musicians (he also despised bebop, cool jazz, or anything else that he felt strayed from traditional jazz rooted in African American musical traditions he was one of the original Jazz Police). In contrast, Hammond pushed for more racial integration in jazz lineups he introduced Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton to Goodman at around the time this issue of Orbes was published and would go on to promote and record musicians representing a diverse range of musical styles and backgrounds (Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Stevie Ray Vaughan, to name only a few). Along with contributions by Hans Arp, Francis Picabia and Gertrude Stein, this issue of Orbes includes Panassié's article "Le jazz hot," later expanded to a book by the same title published in 1934, which argues for his traditionalist view of jazz. He was a co-founder of the Hot Club de France, promoting Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France, but later split with the other co-founders over the issue of bebop and other innovations to the jazz tradition. Panassié and Hammond were not completely at odds; they were both original advisory board members of the Hot Record Society, founded in 1937 to reissue out-of-print Dixieland recordings, and Hammond was a contributor to the Hot Club's newsletter, Jazz Hot.An important association, linking two of the most significant arbiters of jazz. Seller Inventory # 101071
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