Charles Delaunay

For the French astronomer, see Charles-Eugène Delaunay.

Charles Delaunay on 52nd Street, NYC, ca. Oktober 1946.
Photography by William P. Gottlieb.

Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911, in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise – 16 February 1988, Paris) was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France.

The son of painters Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay, Charles Delaunay was one of the founders of the Hot Club de France. Together with Hugues Panassié he initiated the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. He also organised concerts, for example with Benny Carter.

In 1935, together with Panassié he founded Le Jazz Hot, one of the oldest jazz magazines. During World War II Delaunay was a member of the Resistance, but continued leading the Hot Club. In 1948 Delaunay founded the record label Disques Vogue. He is author of the famous Hot Discography with 5 editions (the first jazz discography) and worked also as artist. Delaunay died of Parkinson's disease in 1988.

Works

• Django Reinhardt- Souvenirs, Paris 1954, Editions Jazz-Hot, English London 1961
• Hot Discography, 1936, latest as New Hot Discography 1982
• Hot Iconography (lithographies of jazz musicians)
• with Robert Goffin Jazz 47
• Django mon frère, Paris 1968
• De la Vie et du Jazz
• Delaunay's Dilemma (Autobiography, also title of a John Lewis composition) 1983

External links

• Biography

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Name	Delaunay, Charles
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Date of birth	18 January 1911
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Date of death	16 February 1988
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