Valse de Paris: Emile Carrara's Ensemble - La Chanson de Nina, ca 1940

Emile Carrara & son Ensemble - La Chanson de Nina - Valse (A.Esperza), Pathé ca 1940

NOTE: Emile Carrara's ensemble was one of many so called "jazz accordion bands", that were popular in Europe in late 1930s/early 1940s. In Paris, the most notorious was Adolphe Deprince's accordion orchestra, in UK - Primo Scala and Billy Reid's accordion bands. Many accordion virtuoses operated also in Germany, e.g. Albert Vossen or - the most famous of all - Will Glahé. They played swing, dance tunes and most favourably - especially in Paris - java and musette waltzes.

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Music

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• Thirties
• Forties
• 1930
• 1940
• Paris
• France
• vintage
• photographs
• posters
• valse
• musette
• accordion
• dance
• band
• swing
• orchestra
• 78rpm

[MarasVeil]

Ah... this is a dream. The photos are splendid and evoke a strong sense of time and place. Bravo!

[Travel3]

Beautiful.

[0AZ909]

Carrara, un musicien que j'aime pour l'atmosphère qu'il engendre grâce à son accordéon !Un musicien poétique et tendre....

[frankm29]

a lovely tune.am a fan of emile carrara.does anyone have a copy of the sheet music please?

Merci

Frank from ecosse

[flowerlikelife5]

Paris, je t'aime!

[vratsab]

Fantastic atmosphere!...the images and the music. Just perfect!!!

[edgrosso]

Beautiful. The music and the pictures are a wonderful musical poem to the city Thank you doing this. I will send it to my French American grandchildren who were born in Pris.

[dzheger]

The enchanting valse, the beautiful orchestration with the accordion, the fabulous atmospheric photos (those nocturnal shot!) -- ca c'est Paris!