André Hodeir

André Hodeir studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Olivier Messiaen is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is jazz. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are jazz. Residence is recorded at Garches. Employment is recorded with Jazz Hot. Positions recorded include editor-in-chief. Distinctions recorded are Louis Guilloux Prize.

Hodeir was born in Paris and trained as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was taught by Olivier Messiaen and won first prizes in fugue, harmony, and music history. While pursuing these studies he discovered jazz and various music forms besides jazz and classical. He recorded on violin under the pseudonym "Claude Laurence". As a critic, his tough but insightful analytic writings were much acclaimed and influential (Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence; English edition 1956). In 1954 he was a founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, which included Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck. In 1957, at the invitation of Ozzie Cadena of Savoy Records, he recorded an album of his compositions with Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman, Frank Rehak, Hal McKusick, Eddie Costa, George Duvivier, and Annie Ross. In addition to two books of Essais (1954 and 1956), he wrote film scores, including Le Palais Idéal by Ado Kyrou for the film Chutes de pierres, danger de mort by Michel Fano, and Brigitte Bardot's Une Parisienne. He founded an orchestra during the 1960s and composed a work based on the Anna Livia Plurabelle story from the novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. He died in Versailles.

André Hodeir was recorded at birth as André Willy Hodeir. He also worked under the name Claude Laurence. The authorities additionally record the headings Andre Hodeir and Claude Laurence. His recorded language was French.

André Hodeir is recorded as composer, music historian, writer, music arranger and musician.