Hot Club of Belgium
The Hot Club of Belgium (Hot Club de Belgique; abbreviated as HCB) was a Belgian club for jazz fans founded on April 1, 1939, by Willy De Cort (1914–2004), Albert Bettonville (1916–2000), Carlos de Radzitzky (fr) (1915–1985), and others. De Cort was an impresario; Bettonville was a music journalist; and de Radzitzky was a poet, journalist, and music critic. The club disbanded in the mid-1960s.[1]
Selected activities[edit]
- Concerts, conferences, and film
The organization held concerts, often at the Théâtre royal des Galeries (fr) and the Palais des Beaux-Arts. HCB also held conferences and monthly matinees film screenings related to jazz, and later rock and roll.[2]
- Jazz competitions
The Hot Club of Belgium organized an international jazz competition. In 1947, Belgian jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Johnny Dover (de) (1929–2002) formed his first jazz group to participate in the competition[3] and won the award of best clarinet player that year.[4]
Publications[edit]
The Hot Club of Belgium published two magazines:
- Jazz,[5] which ran from March to November 1945, Issues 1 through 13
- Hot Club Magazine: revue illustrée de la musique de jazz[6] a monthly, which from January 1946 to August 1948, Issues 1 through 29.
Carlos de Radzitzky (fr) (1915–1985) was editor-in-chief of Hot Club Magazine. Beginning November 1948, the publication was absorbed and appeared as a two-page insert in the Paris publication Jazz Hot until October 1956.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Hot Club de Belgique," by Robert Pernet (de) (1940–2001), Grove Music Online (retrieved June 17, 2015); OCLC 5104954637
- ^ "Oral Interview of Jan Torfs" (interviewee), by Kasper Demeulemeester (interviewer), May 8, 2002
- ^ "Jazzhistorie (10): Jazzconcours in België vanaf 1928 (deel 2)" ("Jazz History (10): Jazz Competition in Belgium from 1928 (part 2)") by Albert Michiels (nl), Jazzmozaïek (nl) (www
.jazzmozaïek .be), N° 4, 2004, pps. 46–47; ISSN 1376-6619 - ^ "Johnny Dover," Jazz in Belgium (www
.jazzinbelgium) (retrieved June 18, 2015) - ^ OCLC 1789466, 183295612
- ^ OCLC 5358361, 780289758, ISSN 2033-8694
- ^ "Les Annes-Lumiere (1940–1960)" (chapter 3), by Jean-Pol Schroeder, Dictionnaire du Jazz: à Bruxelles et en Wallonie, Pierre Mardaga (fr) (1991), pg. 36 (article: pps 27–44); OCLC 30357595
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