Claude Bolling - A Drum Is A Woman By Ellington - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On Claude Bolling and Friends, the master of big band leads a small group performing classic jazz in the chamber music vein. The brilliant writing and talented musicians combine to reveal a pared down approach to the music they have been playing with excellence for over twenty-five years. Claude Bolling shows himself here to be a pianist much younger than his years would suggest, and the loving, sophisticated generosity in his playing makes this album a testament to his work as an ambassador for the vivacity that still exists in classic jazz.

For 'Cinema Hits,' Bolling, in his unique way, has managed to jazz up several classic tunes of the cinema - from 'The Sting' to 'Doctor Zhivago' to 'High Noon,' thus enabling US to see these immortal works in an unexpectedly new light. All in all, the colors are quite different without the loss of any original sparkle. Bolling Hot! - Ivan Brunet, the Observer. Features the songs InchThe Pink Panther,Inch InchAs Time Goes By,Inch InchRaindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,Inch InchCheek to CheekInch and others.

'There was a time when French popular music was represented by Georges Brassens, Boris Vian and Gilbert Bécaud. The encounter between the variety repertory and jazz was quite natural and legitimate. Claude Bolling. Fremealux. 2006.