[78-L] Early Blues in Europe

[maceo at nugrape.net]

It seems from the reference below he had direct access to musicians then 
touring France, therefore first heard jazz from touring artists?

http://books.google.com.au/books?
id=3t8SLVloJjsC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=Hugues+Panassie+1930s&source=bl&ots=_JmqgnR
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> Thanks to all who were kind enough to offer thoughts and facts.
> I always wondered whether US radio stations aired "race" records before 
> the 1950s. The irony is that Gunter Boas - a German record collector, 
> jazz pianist and blues vocalist - upon being freed from Buchenwald 
> concentration camp (he had listened to enemy radio) moderated "Blues for 
> Monday", a radio program entirely devoted to classic vocal blues on AFN, 
> from 1949 through to 1957. He might well have been the first person 
> anywhere in the world to have done so, can anyone prove me wrong?
> And I am still curious how Panassie, Delaunay, et al knew about vocal 
> blues 78s...
> 
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