Les Classiques du Hot

The U. S. produced jazz music but it has little critical discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late Bix Beiderbecke; Trombonists Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey. M. Coffin distinguishes between le jazz straight et hot, denotes les classiques du hot, discusses their sources and development, arrives at a conclusion which has long seemed obvious to devotees: that the best jazz, which enjoys little public 'recognition, is an intricately exciting music, with the true "blues" the only original contribution of the U. S. to musical history.

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