Claude Bolling
Personal Info
Know For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-04-10 (90 years old)
Deathday
2020-12-29
Place of Birth
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also known As
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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 Fi...
Acting
2011
as Self
1958
as (uncredited)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
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as Circus Band Conductor
1968
as Self
Production
1979
as Original Music Composer
1970
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Music Director
1971
as Original Music Composer
1980
as Original Music Composer
1998
as Original Music Composer
1963
as Music
2010
as Music
1996
as Music
1977
as Music
1984
as Music
1961
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Original Music Composer
1979
as Music
1988
as Music
1974
as Music
1986
as Original Music Composer
1968
as Music
1972
as Original Music Composer
1958
as Music
1989
as Original Music Composer
1990
as Original Music Composer
1975
as Original Music Composer
1960
as Music
1973
as Music
1982
1976
as Original Music Composer
1998
as Writer
1974
as Original Music Composer
1984
as Original Music Composer
1973
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Original Music Composer
1977
as Original Music Composer
1987
as Music
1970
as Original Music Composer
1974
as Original Music Composer
1975
as Music
1983
as Original Music Composer
1985
as Original Music Composer
1977
as Music
1980
as Music
2002
as Original Music Composer
1980
as Music
1991
as Original Music Composer
1964
as Music
1990
as Music
1979
as Original Music Composer
1991
as Original Music Composer
1967
as Original Music Composer
1970
as Original Music Composer
1971
as Original Music Composer
1979
as Original Music Composer
1971
as Original Music Composer
1974
as Original Music Composer
1984
as Original Music Composer
1954
as Original Music Composer
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