Hugues Panassié
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Hugues Panassié was a French critic, record producer, and impresario of traditional jazz.
Hugues Panassié, Red Prysock, and Tiny Grimes, New York City, circa 1946–1948 (William P. Gottlieb, photo)
Charles Delaunay
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Charles Delaunay was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France.
Hugues Panassié
…up the saxophone and fell in love with jazz in the late 1920s. Panassié was the founding president of the Hot Club de France in 1932. In 1935, with Charles Delaunay, he co-founded Jazz Hot, a monthly jazz magazine; its first issue appeared that year, and Mezzrow later recalled that it "soon had dozens of rivals…
Charles Delaunay on 52nd Street, New York City, October 1946 (photograph by William P. Gottlieb)