''Jazz Magazine'' is a French

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

dedicated to

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

. The magazine was created in 1950 by Nicole and

Eddie Barclay Édouard Ruault (26 January 1921 – 13 May 2005), better known as Eddie Barclay, was a French music producer whose singers included Jacques Brel, Dalida and Charles Aznavour. He founded record label Barclay. Life Ruault, the son of a ca ...

and Jacques Souplet.

Frank Ténot Frank Ténot (31 October 1925 – 8 January 2004) was a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic. He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi. He is best remembered as one of the founders o ...

- who had left ''

Jazz Hot ''Jazz Hot'' is a French quarterly jazz magazine published in Marseille. It was founded in March 1935 in Paris. Early years ''Jazz Hot'' is acclaimed for having innovated scholarly jazz criticism before and after World War II — jazz criti ...

'' to join ''Jazz Magazine'' - and

Daniel Filipacchi Daniel Filipacchi (born 12 January 1928) is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art. Career Filipacchi wrote and worked as a photographer for ''Paris Match'' from its founding in 1949 by J ...

became directors of the magazine soon after its creation, becoming owners in 1956. The magazine was based in Paris and was published on a monthly basis. In 2009 it was combined with another jazz magazine, ''Jazzman''.

References

*Anne Legrand and Véronique Pernin, "Frank Ténot (2):Les années ''Jazz Mag''", in ''So What'', 31 January 2004

External links

Official website
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