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.
- 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)
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