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VIAN Boris
Jazz in Paris], autograph manuscript and corrected typescript [1948-1949] : 82 pages on 48 in-4 or in-folio pages : and 113 typewritten in-4 pages : in English (the first 6 pages in French). A complete set of Boris Vian's 45 chronicles of Jazz in Paris for the American radio station WNEW. It includes two sets : * the autograph manuscript of 38 broadcasts (the first one in French), sometimes offering two versions of the same, several pages on letterheads from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, then from the Office professionnel des industries et des commerces du papier et du carton, with numerous erasures and corrections, and sometimes drawings in the margins : * a typing of 43 broadcasts, sometimes also in double version, corrected by the hand of Vian or his American collaborator Ned Brandt.a complete file of Vian's writings for his radio interventions on French jazz for the American National Public Radio WNEW based in New York, from April 1948 to July 1949. The 45 programmes prepared by Vian were recorded by the French Broadcasting Corporation for broadcast in the United States, but no trace was kept in the archives of either Radio-France or WNEW. The texts were written directly in English (only the draft of the very first broadcast is in French), in a picturesque and personal style: "Vian's English" notes Ned Brandt, Vian's American collaborator who sometimes intervened in the corrections of the typing.The general title of these programmes varied: first Hot Club de Paris, then Hot Music from Paris, then from the 9th Hot Music from France. This series of programmes was intended to introduce WNEW listeners to jazz created and recorded in France in the thirties and forties. In his commentary, Boris Vian inserts the titles of the music he plays. These columns were published under the title Jazz in Paris, presented and translated by Gilbert Pestureau (Pauvert, 1997). Manuscripts : 1] in French, untitled (6 ff): "La Radiodiffusion fran
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