Michel Warlop

Michel Warlop ( born January 23, 1911 in Douai, † March 20, 1947 in Bagneres -de- Luchon, Haute -Garonne ) was a French swing violinist and bandleader. He is commonly regarded as the father of jazz violin in France.

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Life and work

Early years

Michel Warlop received as a child, first piano, then violin lessons at the conservatory in Lille and later in Paris; He received numerous awards and diplomas, but suggested a classical concert career and became interested in jazz, as he heard it from records of Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines ' and Bix Beiderbeckes. Warlop then played in various vaudeville theaters and theater orchestras; incidentally, he worked for a music publisher. End of 1930, he joined the orchestra Gregor and his Gregorians; the band leader, an Armenian named Gregor Kelekian, was not a musician, but dancers. But he had a fondness for jazz and employed in his band profiled Jazz musicians of the era, including the pianist Stephane Mougin, the trombonist Guy Paquinet, the saxophonist Alix Combelle and André Ekyan and the trumpeter Philippe Brun and Noël Chiboust; to Warlop developed in this environment to a skilled improviser. As Kelekian his Gregorians disbanded in 1934 due to financial difficulties, Warlop formed his own band, which in turn included a number of soloists of the old Gregorians. Warlops orchestra played ( for economic reasons ) not only jazz and responded flexibly to each current fashion trends. The repertoire were also days hit with singers like Maurice Chevalier and Germaine Sablon; Warlop was also associated with the symphonic jazz of the then-popular Paul Whiteman with a.

Django Reinhardt and Coleman Hawkins

Mid-1930s was Michel Warlops orchestra as one of the leading French jazz bands of the swing. In his band worked alongside Combelle and Ekyan also the guitarist Django Reinhardt before this 1935 member of the Quintette du Hot Club de France was. With Michel et son Orchestre Warlop Reinhardt took on 16 March 1934 on the " Présentation Blues ," which some consider his supporters as " definitely his first jazz recording ". Warlop wrote this title and arrangement in the style of the Casa Loma Orchestra, one of the earliest known white swing bands. The close-knit arrangement provides for 16 bars for Django's solos, while the back takes the orchestra. On the same day was the title " La Chanson du Large " with singer Germaine Sablon.

A year later, on March 2, 1935, Django Reinhardt met with Warlops tape on the gas- animal border in Paris tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins; it originated the title "Blue Moon", "Avalon" and "What a Difference a Day Made". Until 1937 Warlop continued to work with Django Reinhardt and Matelo Ferret and recorded under his own name for the label Swing. 1937 Warlop played in the trio of Violins with Eddie South, Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt ( " Lady Be Good " ), also in the band of Philippe Brun. With Grappelli and Reinhardt Joseph he accompanied the singer André pasdoc and Yvonne Louis.

In addition Warlop played in the second half of the 1930s in the formation Jazz du Poste Parisien and the accordion player Louis Richardet. In addition, he worked with Garland Wilson, with whom he recorded in 1938 as a duo. In the early 1940s during the time of the German occupation, he was a member of Raymond Legrand Orchestra; Warlop headed next to a private String - seven blokes from 1941 until 1943. He composed a Swing Concerto, which was released in 1989 on board, as well as the title of Noel you Prisonnier, at its premiere in 1942 he the Paris Symphony Orchestra conducted.

Michel Warlop died in 1947 at the age of only 36 years of tuberculosis. It is located in the spa town of Luchon (Pyrenees) buried at the side of the cellist André Simon.

His style

As a violinist Warlop always stood in the shadow of his colleague Stéphane Grappelli; but he possessed a vitality and rhythmic energy that clearly separated him against the more elegant phrasing Grappelli. He played with almost frenzied vibrato, trills and a huge number of large interval jumps.

Michel Warlops violin was - initially transferred to Grappelli - as a kind of Iffland -Ring. This she handed on to Jean -Luc Ponty, who passed on in 1979 at the Théâtre de la Ville Didier Lockwood to bring the connection in the direct line to the expression.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Le jazz en France, Vol 4 - Michel Warlop ( Pathé, 1934-38 )
  • Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk In Europe (ASV, 1934-37 )
  • Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins In Europe ( Timeless, 1934-39 )
  • Jazz in Paris - Django Reinhardt - Django et Compagnie ( Emarcy )
  • Django Reinhardt: 1935-1938 ( Classics ); All Star Sessions ( Blue Note, 1935-39 ), 1940 ( Classics
  • Eddie South: 1923-1937 ( Classics )

Lexigraphic entries / Literature

  • Pierre Guingamp: Michel Warlop (1911-1947) - Génie du violon swing. Editions L' Harmattan, 2011. ISBN 978-2-296-56137-3
  • Ekkehard Jost: Le jazz en France. In: That's Jazz. Exhibition catalog. Darmstadt 1988
  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart, Reclam 2003
  • Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1993
  • Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
  • Alexander Schmitz / Peter Maier: Django Reinhardt. Oreos.
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