This is an obscure question: Last night at my favorite record store (while listening to a live Frank Black performance, I picked up an used book by Hugues Panassie called 'The Real Jazz.' The book is copyrighted 1942 (not exactly sure when the book came out originally in France). Right now I am working on my TamTam Books edition of Boris Vian's L'Ecume des jours (Foam of the Daze), which was written in 1947. This novel is jazz-obsessed with a lot of the charaters named after Ellington songs as well as the streets, etc. It seems that M. Panassie shares the same passion & taste in jazz with Vian and I am presuming that they may have known each other (being a small world in Paris at that time -especially if you were a jazz fan.) Does his name ring any bells to anyone on this list? Anyway it seems to be a fascinating document on how a Frenchman feels about American jazz - especially during the early 40's. If someone can bring some info on Panassie, I would deeply appreciate it. Thanks! -- Tosh Berman TamTam Books http://www.tamtambooks.com