Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling ( born April 10, 1930 in Cannes ) is a French jazz musician ( piano ), composer and music producer.

Life

Bolling, who was a child prodigy, won a jazz competition in 1944 and then founded his own jazz combo. In 1948, he stepped on the Jazz Festival in Nice. He played in the same year with Rex Stewart, Roy Eldridge in 1951 and 1953 and in 1956 with Lionel Hampton plates a. Then he formed a big band and worked as musical director for recordings (for example, Brigitte Bardot ) and also produced film music. Later he also wrote compositions in which he fused jazz and classical music, who performed as Jean -Pierre Rampal, Maurice Andre, Elena Duran or Yo- Yo Ma. For the jazz pianist George Shearing and the classical guitarist Angel Romero, he composed the Concerto pour guitare classique et piano jazz that was recorded with the help of Ray Brown on bass and drummer Shelly Manne and 1981 appeared on LP.

Both as a pianist as well as a jazz composer Bolling is strongly influenced by Duke Ellington.

Discography (selection)

  • 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 )
  • Suite No.. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (1987 )
  • Nuances (1988 )
  • Sonatas for Two Pianos ( 1989)
  • Cross Over U.S.A. (1993 )
  • Enchanting Versailles - Strictly Classical (1994 )
  • A Drum is a Woman (1997)
  • Tribute to the Piano Greats (2003)

Film scores (selection)

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