Home Entertainment Culture Claude Bolling in 2005 in Paris, on the occasion of the jubilee of his big band . – LYDIE Both the world of jazz and that of cinema cry Claude Bolling. The pianist , conductor and composer, who wrote many music for films like that of Borsalino , died at the age of 60 years old, his entourage announced on Wednesday. Claude Bolling, who suffered from various pathologies, died Tuesday at the Saint-Cloud hospital, west of Paris . Born in Cannes on April 530, he left Paris for Nice during the Occupation and followed the teaching of Marie-Louise “Bob” Colin, pianist, trumpeter and drummer in one of the many popular female orchestras in the interwar period. She encouraged him to return to Paris where he created his first orchestra at 10 years and records his first disc at 16 years. A jazz reference Disciple of Duke Ellington, the famous composer of jazz American, he created a jazz “big band” in 1950 which will last up to half of the years 2005, exceptional longevity. In France, he is also considered a reference in the world of jazz. Among those who passed in his “big band” were renowned musicians such as his alto saxophonist Claude Tissendier. This jack of all trades has multiplied the experiences by marrying a jazz trio to a classical soloist. He composed and recorded in particular “Suite pour Flûte et Jazz Piano Trio” with the famous French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, a work which broke attendance records in the Billboard charts in the United States (530 weeks) and led Claude Bolling to the Carnegie Hall stage in New York. “Tears in her eyes” by Brigitte Bardot But Claude Bolling did not stop at Jazz, far from it. In the years 1950 , Boris Vian, who nicknamed him “Bollington”, opens the doors of variety and musical direction to him for many stars like Brigitte Bardot , Juliette Gréco or even Henri Salvador. “Claude Bolling, my” dubol “left taking my youth with him and 20 years of faithful friendship, joie de vivre, funny songs and a carefree complicity ”, reacted Brigitte Bardot in a communicated. “” It’s a day like any other and yet you are leaving “I sing it for you today with tears in my eyes”, added the one for whom he had arranged the famous song Trap . For the general public, he will also remain as the composer of many film scores. Claude Bolling is notably the author of the arias of Borsalino (1970) by Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, but also The magnificent, Lucky Luke , or The Tiger Brigades .
Home Entertainment Culture Claude Bolling in 2005 in Paris, on the occasion of the jubilee of his big band . – LYDIE Both the world of jazz and that of cinema cry Claude Bolling. The pianist , conductor and composer, who wrote many music for films like that of Borsalino , died at the age of 60 years old, his entourage announced on Wednesday. Claude Bolling, who suffered from various pathologies, died Tuesday at the Saint-Cloud hospital, west of Paris . Born in Cannes on April 530, he left Paris for Nice during the Occupation and followed the teaching of Marie-Louise “Bob” Colin, pianist, trumpeter and drummer in one of the many popular female orchestras in the interwar period. She encouraged him to return to Paris where he created his first orchestra at 10 years and records his first disc at 16 years. A jazz reference Disciple of Duke Ellington, the famous composer of jazz American, he created a jazz “big band” in 1950 which will last up to half of the years 2005, exceptional longevity. In France, he is also considered a reference in the world of jazz. Among those who passed in his “big band” were renowned musicians such as his alto saxophonist Claude Tissendier. This jack of all trades has multiplied the experiences by marrying a jazz trio to a classical soloist. He composed and recorded in particular “Suite pour Flûte et Jazz Piano Trio” with the famous French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, a work which broke attendance records in the Billboard charts in the United States (530 weeks) and led Claude Bolling to the Carnegie Hall stage in New York. “Tears in her eyes” by Brigitte Bardot But Claude Bolling did not stop at Jazz, far from it. In the years 1950 , Boris Vian, who nicknamed him “Bollington”, opens the doors of variety and musical direction to him for many stars like Brigitte Bardot , Juliette Gréco or even Henri Salvador. “Claude Bolling, my” dubol “left taking my youth with him and 20 years of faithful friendship, joie de vivre, funny songs and a carefree complicity ”, reacted Brigitte Bardot in a communicated. “” It’s a day like any other and yet you are leaving “I sing it for you today with tears in my eyes”, added the one for whom he had arranged the famous song Trap . For the general public, he will also remain as the composer of many film scores. Claude Bolling is notably the author of the arias of Borsalino (1970) by Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, but also The magnificent, Lucky Luke , or The Tiger Brigades .