Hugues Panassié (27 February 1912 in Paris – 8 December 1974 in Montauban)
Selected controversies
In a changing world of jazz, Panassié was an ardent exponent of traditional jazz — strictly Dixieland. He harbored a particular love of style similar to that of Louis Armstrong from the 1930s. Panassié criticized West Coast jazz as inauthentic, partly because most musicians were white and also sounded white.
References
Inline citations from Bulletin du Hot Club de France; :