Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling , is 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 agehe was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke. Bollings 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.

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