Claude Bolling

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)