Claude Bolling
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Birth Date: April 10, 1930
Deceased Date: December 29, 2020
Artist Bio:
French child prodigy jazz pianist and composer, by age 14 performing professionally with Lionel Hampton and Oscar Peterson, later collaborated with numerous artists to bridge the classical and jazz genres, including violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Yo Yo Ma and others, best known in North America for his crossover album with classical flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, the Grammy-nominated, million-selling Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano Trio (1975), which remained on the Billboard classical Top 40 for a record 530 weeks, or just over ten years, also scripted music for over 100 motion pictures, To Catch a Spy (1971) and The Awakening (1980) among them, died from undisclosed causes on 12/29/2020, age 90.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/952286943/pianist-claude-bolling-creator-of-popular-jazz-classical-suites-has-died
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