sentences:  He soon learned of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Duke Ellington through Lawrence Wright's music newspaper "Melody Maker" (which had begun publication in 1926).Dance chose to focus his enthusiasm on the music of black bands.He started writing opinion pieces about the jazz scene for Hugues Panassié's French-language magazine "Jazz Hot" in 1935, modelling his articles on those found in "Melody Maker" and "The Gramophone" that were written by John Hammond.