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Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling (born March 10, 1930), is a French jazz pianist and composer.

He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory[?], then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke[?].

He wrote music for over one hundred films, mostly French, starting with the score for a 1957 documentary about the Cannes Film Festival, and including 1979's California Suite[?].

Bolling is also noted for a series of "crossover" collaborations with classical musicians. His Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano with Jean Pierre Rampal, a clever and charming mix of Baroque elegance with modern swing, has been a top seller for many years, and was followed up by other works in the same vein.

Works

  • Claude Bolling Plays Duke Ellington (1959)
  • Cat Anderson, Claude Bolling And Co. (1965)
  • Original Ragtime (1966)
  • Original Boogie Woogie (1968)
  • Original Piano Blues (1969)
  • Original Jazz Classics (1970)
  • Original Piano Greats (1972)
  • Swing Session (1973)
  • Jazz Party (1975)
  • Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano (1975)
  • With the Help of My Friends (1975)
  • Keep Swingin' Volume 4 (1975)
  • Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (1975)
  • Hot Sounds (1976)
  • Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio (1975)
  • Concerto for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio (1977)
  • Jazz Gala 79 (1979)
  • Just For Fun (1980)
  • Picnic Suite (1980)
  • Toot Suite (1981)
  • Claude Bolling (1981)
  • Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio (1983)
  • Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio (1984)
  • Jazz a la Francaise (1984)
  • Live at the Meridien (1985)
  • Suite No. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (1986)
  • Nuances (1988)
  • Sonatas for Two Pianos (1989)
  • Cross Over U.S.A. (1993)
  • Enchanting Versailles - Strictly Classical (1994)
  • A Drum is a Woman (1997)

(there are more I think)

External Link

www.claude-bolling.com (http://www.claude-bolling.com)



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