Louis Armstrong and Meribeth Old, Paris, Olympia, around 1950, Eddy Wiggins

Edgar Wiggins was born in New Orleans, then lived in Chicago, which he left in 1933 to move to Paris. Staring out as a correspondent for the Chicago Defender, he then covered the Jazz scene in Paris for the newly founded review Jazz Hot until 1939. After the liberation of France in 1944, Eddy Wiggins became the jazz correspondent for several American magazines and frequented the greatest artists of the time: Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie and Count Basie were all his friends.

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