Carini, Stephane
Les Alchimies Discretes D'henri Crolla
When Henri Crolla died in 1960, poets, film directors, musicians and actors from all over Paris paid him a public tribute. The life of this extraordinary guitarist had been as dazzling and incandescent as the path taken by stardust as it enters the atmosphere. Born in 1920, the son of Neapolitan musicians in exile, he grew up in the Parisian underworld, in the "zone", where he rubbed shoulders with a certain Reinhardt family. As a teenager, he played mandolin in the cafs of Montparnasse, where he met Prvert and the Groupe Octobre, who took him under their wing. After the war, he became one of the most important French jazz guitarists of his time, composing film scores, accompanying or providing musical direction for the biggest stars such as Piaf and Montand. He even taught guitar to Jacques Higelin... Before his death at just forty. Stphane Carini's invaluable work plunges us into the musical constellation and life of an unjustly forgotten artist. Yet his music is the keystone of the French soundtrack of the 1950s. The author paints a portrait of one of the greatest guitarists of the 20th century, and through him, that of a by-gone era, the beginning of the Trente Glorieuses: a golden age for jazz, music hall, poetry and cinema. 240 pages book. In French