He was natural inside Cannes, studied at a Nice Conservatory, then around Paris. The infant prodigy, by age Xiv he was swimming jazz piano professionally, by having Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke.

He wrote music for concluded a single hundred films, mostly French, starting with the score for a 1957 documentary about a Cannes Film Festival, and including 1979's California Suite.

Bolling is too noted for the series of "crossover" collaborations using authoritative musicians. His Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio using Jean-Pierre Rampal, the clever & charming mix of Churrigueresco elegance by owning modern swing, has been a top vender for numbers of years, & was followed higher by more works in the equivalent vein. It was particularly popular in a United States, & it was at the top of the hit parade for deuce years when its release.

Below his act by owning Rampal, Bolling went in to function by having several more musicians, from either different genres, including Alexandre Lagoya, Pinchas Zukerman, Maurice André, and Yo Yo Ma. He has as well worked sustaining, & performed tributes to numerous others, including Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson.

Works

Claude Bolling Plays Duke Ellington (1959) Cat Anderson, Claude Bolling & Co. (1965) Original Rag (1966) Original Boogie-woogie Woogie (1968) Original Piano Blues (1969) Original Jazz Classics (1970) Original Soft Greats (1972) Swing Session (1973) Jazz Person (1975) Suite for Fiddle & Jazz Piano (1975) Using a Serve of Our Friends (1975) ''Keep Swingin' Volume Quaternity (1975) Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano (1975) Hot Sounds (1976) Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Soft Trio (1975) Concerto for Fiddle & Jazz Soft Trio (1977) Jazz Jamboree 79 (1979) Upright For Fun (1980) Picnic Suite (1980) Toot Suite (1981) Claude Bolling (1981) Suite for Chamber Orchestra & Jazz Soft Trio (1983) Suite for Violoncello & Jazz Soft Trio (1984) Jazz the la Francaise (1984) Survive at a Meridien (1985) Suite There is no. Ii for Flute & Jazz Soft Trio (1987) Shade (1988) Sonatas for 2 Pianos (1989) Cross All over U.S.The. (1993) Enchanting Versailles - Strictly Authoritative (1994) The Drum occurs as Woman (1997) Tribute To The Soft Greats'' (2003)