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8/10/2015 7:39 pm  #1


"Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano turns 40



The iconic recording by Claude Bolling and Jean Pierre Rampal that launched a whole new genre of music called "crossover", a hybridization of classical and jazz was released 40 years ago in 1975. 

Its Grammy award winning success quickly led to more compositions by Bolling, including Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano with Andre Segovia; Toot Suite:  Trumpet and Jazz Piano with Maurice Andre; and a Classical Violin and Jazz Piano album featuring Itzach Pearlman.

Other European composer/artists offered their talents, though none rose to the success of Bolling and his collaborators.   Fellow Frenchman Jacques Loussier had a series of recordings titled Play Bach which featured jazzed up versions of various chorales and preludes.   German Gunter Norris had a wonderful adaptation of Vivaldi's masterwork titled Four Swinging Season which--most sadly and unfortunately--seems to have never been digitized.

 


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