M. Hugues Panassi, was the president of the Hot Club of Paris (Hot Jazz) and a leading French Music critic. "The Musician's Bible" is how Louis Armstrong describes Guide to Jazz." Panassie provides a brief biography of the all the great and near great among Jazzmen; he also identifies and describes the best Jazz classics, explains the role of every instrument, and defines musical terms. He was the first critic to take Jazz seriously as important musical form and the prime force in the recognition of Jazz as a "Respectable Art". Sixteen pages of great black and white photographs: Scoville Browne; Bix Beiderbecke; Louis Armstrong; Bill Coleman; Cozy Cole; Roy Eldridge; Ella Fitzgerald and other greats. Original blue decorated cloth white letters, DW not price clipped, yellow green blue stripe. Mild rubbing of extremities, top edge slight crease, half inch closed tear. In mylar jacket. Very clean white text, solidly bound. 8vo, 312 pages. First Edition, First Printing (November 1956). Originally published in France, 1954 as Dictionnaire du Jazz. Jacket Design George Kelley.

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