Henri Crolla was a French jazz

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 guitarist

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 and film composer

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Born in Naples

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, Campania

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, Italy

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, to a family of itinerant Neapolitan musicians, he moved with his family to Porte de Choisy in France in 1922 following the rise of fascism

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 in Italy. One of his neighbours was a young Django Reinhardt

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, with whose family he became close. He died in Paris

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Discography

• Notre Ami Django (1958)
• Begin the Beguine
• Tenderly
• "' Le long des rues' (2009 jazz in Paris)

Sources

• Les Ballades de Crolla by Norbert Gabriel and Sophie Tournel

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Crolla