Charles Delaunay

Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911 – 16 February 1988) was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader 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.

[2] 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 and was one of the first people to introduce bop into France, but Panassié did not even consider the new music to be jazz.

Delaunay died in Vineuil Saint Firmin (Oise, France) of Parkinson's disease in 1988.

Charles Delaunay on 52nd Street, New York City, October 1946 (photograph by William P. Gottlieb )