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The French violinist Warlop had a short but varied career, working with such noted pop singers as <a href="spotify:artist:3QXjI80udwDSEfxK5BjUXc">Maurice Chevalier</a> and Germaine Sablon (1934-1935), and with such jazz greats as violinist <a href="spotify:artist:6AfbDYupHV5e6nse9W6tKG">Stephane Grappelli</a> and guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:5Z1XZyEFY0dewG8faEIiEx">Django Reinhardt</a> (1934-1937). Warlop also worked with the group Jazz du Poste Parisien, accordionist Louis Richardet, and in a group with fellow violinists <a href="spotify:artist:6AfbDYupHV5e6nse9W6tKG">Grappelli</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1E1ti7Ttt0Vq3GVCw9oHvm">Eddie South</a> (in 1937). He played in a duo with the expatriate American pianist <a href="spotify:artist:1SaysomWYiEN2IEOBxJsHV">Garland Wilson</a> (1938), and worked with other American musicians visiting Paris, including most notably tenor saxophonist <a href="spotify:artist:0JM134st8VY7Ld9T2wQiH0">Coleman Hawkins</a>. Warlop played in the orchestra of saxophonist Raymond Lergrand (father of composer <a href="spotify:artist:1EtE0iSY6iFlN9L9c53ETy">Michel Lergrand</a>) in the early '40s and led a string septet (1941-1943). In 1942 he conducted the Paris Symphony Orchestra in a performance of his composition "Noel du Prisonnier." Warlop died in 1947 at age 36. ~ Chris Kelsey, Rovi
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