CLAUDE BOLLING
Genres: Jazz Related Soundtracks, Swing, Third Stream, Big Band, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Vocal Jazz, Ragtime, Dixieland, Cool Jazz, Boogie Woogie Piano • France

Claude Bolling (10 April 1930 – 29 December 2020)  was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor. 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. Bolling's books on jazz technique show that he did not delve far beyond bebop into much avant garde jazz. He was a major part of the traditional jazz revival in the late 1960s, and he became friends with Oscar Peterson. He has written music for over one hundred films, mostly French, starting with the score for a 1957 documentary about the Cannes Film Festival, and including the films Borsalino (1970), and California Suite (1978). Bolling is also noted for a series of "crossover" collaborations with classical musicians. His Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio with Jean-Pierre Rampal, a mix read more...