André Hodeir and the wonders of written jazz. By Pierre Fargeton
Though known internationally as a jazz critic, thanks to Jazz, its Evolution and Essence (1954/1956) and Toward Jazz (1962), André Hodeir considered himself first and foremost a jazz composer. He is indeed the author of numerous works in which the role of writing in jazz is radically rethought, following an often misunderstood logic that we'll be studying with scores in hand.
Pierre Fargeton teaches at the Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne, France), and is a Researcher at IHRIM. His book André Hodeir: le jazz et son double (Symétrie, 2017) was awarded the Prix du Livre de jazz 2017 by the Académie du jazz. He has also published a compendium devoted to the jazz critic Hugues Panassié, Mi-figue, mi-raisin, exégèse d'un théologien du jazz (Outre Mesure, 2020). Together with Vincent Cotro he directed the book À l’invisible nulle n’est tenue (PuFR, 2023) about gender issues in jazz history, and Quand les musiciens (s’)écrivent with Yannick Séité (Hermann, 2023), about the writings of jazz musicians.
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