Word: panassi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had plenty to dig. French Jazzman Hugues Panassié had been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
Luter, whose band plays for free drinks in smoky student hangouts in Paris' Latin Quarter, was the prize find of French Jazz Pedant Hugues (Le Jazz Hot) Panassie, who helped organize the festival. Panassié had been denounced in angry manifestoes for picking an unknown like Claude Luter to represent French jazz. Uninvited French big-timers like Violinist Stephane Grappelly (Quintette de Hot Club de France), after popping off in the Communist press, grumpily consented to appear at the festival's closing session...
Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn't jazz critics like France's Hugues Panassié called him Europe's leading jazz artist and the world's greatest jazz guitarist? Django was so certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar...
...utterly failed to deflect-French Jazz Pundit Hugues Panassié from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis...