Claude Bolling

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-04-10

Deathday 2020-12-29 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Claude Bolling

Biography

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), 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). Source: Article "Claude Bolling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Sound

2010
2002
Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Original Music Composer

1998
Chance or Coincidence

as Original Music Composer

1996
1991
The Pleasure of Love

as Original Music Composer

1991
Netchayev is Back

as Original Music Composer

1990
Want to Stay Alive

as Original Music Composer

1990
1989
Try This One for Size

as Original Music Composer

1988
La Garçonne

as Music

1987
La Rumba

as Music

1986
Un métier de seigneur

as Original Music Composer

1985
He Died with His Eyes Open

as Original Music Composer

1984
The Bay Boy

as Music

1984
Louisiana

as Music

1984
The Leopard

as Original Music Composer

1983
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Awakening

as Original Music Composer

1980
1979
The Other One's Mug

as Original Music Composer

1979
The Angry Man

as Music

1979
La pitié dangereuse

as Original Music Composer

1978
Horoscope

as Original Music Composer

1978
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

as Original Music Composer

1978
California Suite

as Original Music Composer

1978
Butterfly on the Shoulder

as Original Music Composer

1978
Claudine

as Music

1977
1977
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

as Original Music Composer

1977
Silver Bears

as Music

1976
The Undertaker Parlor Computer

as Original Music Composer

1975
The Gypsy

as Original Music Composer

1975
Flic Story

as Music

1974
1974
Say it with Flowers

as Original Music Composer

1974
Borsalino and Co.

as Original Music Composer

1974
Les Brigades du Tigre

as Original Music Composer

1973
Le Solitaire

as Music

1973
The Magnificent One

as Original Music Composer

1972
La Mandarine

as Original Music Composer

1971
Daisy Town

as Original Music Composer

1971
1971
1971
Christa

as Sound

1970
The Sensuous Assassin

as Original Music Composer

1970
Atlantic Wall

as Original Music Composer

1970
Borsalino

as Music

1968
1961
On Friday at Eleven

as Original Music Composer

1960

Actor

The Day the Clown Cried

as Circus Band Conductor

1985
Victoires de la musique

as (Variety/Instrumental Album of the Year)

1982
1971
1968
1958
That Night

as (uncredited)

Writer

1998
1978
Claudine

as Musical