Hot Jazz: The Guide to Swing Music by Hugues Panassié, Cassell
Contributed by Bryson Stohr on Jul 11th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Hot Jazz: The Guide to Swing Music is the English-language translation of Hugues Panassié’s Le Jazz Hot (1934) – which discusses the music genre of swing music and its differences from Jazz music – originally translated from the French by Eleanor & Lyle Dowling for M. Witmark & Sons in 1934. Shown here is the the dust jacket of the rare British 1936 print by Cassell in London.
The purely typographic design exclusively uses typefaces from Rudolf Koch: the multiline Prisma for the title, supplemented by Kabel with the italic and Black styles.
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See also the first U.S. edition by M. Witmark & Sons, featuring another typeface by Rudolf Koch: