Claude Bolling
Claude Bolling (10 April 1930 – 29 December 2020) was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.
He was born in Cannes, France, and studied at the Nice Conservatory, and then in Paris. A child prodigy, by the age of 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 wrote music for over one hundred films, including a 1957 documentary about the Cannes Film Festival, and films such as The Hands of Orlac (1960), World in My Pocket (1961), Me and the Forty Year Old Man (1965), Atlantic Wall (1970), Borsalino (1970), To Catch a Spy (1971), Le Magnifique (1973), Enuff Is Enuff (J'ai mon voyage!), Borsalino & Co. (1974), Flic Story (1975), The Passengers (1977), Silver Bears (1978), California Suite (1978), Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère) (1979), The Awakening (1980), Willie & Phil (1980), Three Men to Kill (1980), The Bay Boy (1984), He Died with His Eyes Open (1985), Try This One for Size (1989) and Chance or Coincidence (1998).
Bolling was 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 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. It was particularly popular in the United States, at the top of the hit parade for two years after its release and on the Billboard top 40 for 530 weeks, roughly ten years.
Following his work with Rampal, Bolling went on to work with many other musicians, from different genres, including guitarist Alexandre Lagoya, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, trumpeter Maurice André, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He also worked with and performed tributes to many others, including Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, and Oscar Peterson.
Bolling was also notable as the composer of the Lucky Luke animated features Daisy Town (1971) and La Ballade des Dalton (1978).
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Fotos
Filme (62)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011 · Self
The Life Before Us
2010 · Original Music Composer
Brigitte Bardot : Divine B.B.
2004
Letter from an Unknown Woman
2002 · Original Music Composer
Chance or Coincidence
1998 · Original Music Composer
Maintenant ou jamais
1997 · Sound, Music
Le Veilleur de nuit
1996 · Original Music Composer
The Pleasure of Love
1991 · Original Music Composer
Netchayev is Back
1991 · Original Music Composer
Want to Stay Alive
1990 · Original Music Composer
Have a Nice Night
1990 · Original Music Composer
Try This One for Size
1989 · Original Music Composer
La Garçonne
1988 · Original Music Composer
La Rumba
1987 · Original Music Composer
He Died with His Eyes Open
1985 · Original Music Composer
The Bay Boy
1984 · Original Music Composer
The Leopard
1984 · Original Music Composer
Louisiana
1984 · Original Music Composer
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
1983 · Original Music Composer
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
1982 · Original Music Composer
Le calvaire d'un jeune homme impeccable
1981 · Compositor
Three Men to Kill
1980 · Original Music Composer
Willie & Phil
1980 · Original Music Composer
The Awakening
1980 · Original Music Composer
La pitié dangereuse
1979 · Original Music Composer
The Other One's Mug
1979 · Original Music Composer
Le Plus Heureux des trois
1979 · Original Music Composer
Jig-Saw
1979 · Original Music Composer
Horoscope
1978 · Original Music Composer
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978 · Original Music Composer
California Suite
1978 · Original Music Composer
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
1978 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
1977 · Original Music Composer
Silver Bears
1977 · Original Music Composer
The Passengers
1977 · Original Music Composer
The Probability Factor
1976 · Original Music Composer
The Gypsy
1975 · Original Music Composer
Flic Story
1975 · Original Music Composer
Tell Me You Love Me
1974 · Music, Original Music Composer
Borsalino and Co.
1974 · Original Music Composer
Say it with Flowers
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Magnificent One
1973 · Original Music Composer
Le Solitaire
1973 · Original Music Composer
The Day the Clown Cried
1972 · Circus Band Conductor
La Mandarine
1972 · Original Music Composer
Daisy Town
1971 · Original Music Composer
La Grande Maffia
1971 · Original Music Composer
Easy Down There!
1971 · Original Music Composer
Atlantic Wall
1970 · Original Music Composer
The Sensuous Assassin
1970 · Original Music Composer
Borsalino
1970 · Original Music Composer
Love in the Night
1968 · Original Music Composer
Spécial Bardot
1968 · Self
Electra One
1967 · Original Music Composer
Constance aux enfers
1964 · Original Music Composer
The Day and the Hour
1963 · Original Music Composer
An einem Freitag um halb zwölf
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Original Music Composer
That Night
1958 · (uncredited)
As Long as You Get Drunk...
1958 · Original Music Composer
14 juillet 1953
1954 · Original Music Composer
Serien (13)
Le monde est à vous
1987 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Un métier de seigneur
1986 · Original Music Composer
Victoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier
1979 · Original Music Composer
Claudine
1978 · Musical, Original Music Composer
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Les Brigades du Tigre
1974 · Original Music Composer
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Cadet Rousselle
1971 · Self
Christa
1971 · Original Music Composer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self