Baroque Jazz by Claude Bolling

Entranced by baroque forms, composer and French pianist Claude Bolling makes his music plays indefinitely with jazz and baroque style. ¿Jazz baroque music or baroque jazz key?

The musical base of Bolling is the standard jazz trio, ie, piano, bass and drums. About this format, the musician incorporates other players, and so, in this way, has created true portents: the "Concerto for guitar and and piano jazz" starring Alexandre Lagoya, fabulous suites with flute (with Jean Pierre Rampal), with violin / viola (with Pichas Zukerman), with trumpet (with Maurice André), two pianos (with Emmanuel Ax), with cello (with Yo Yo Ma).

Jazz and Baroque, but what they have to do? the basis of improvisation, the free play of the invention, the canon, and the strange harmonies, unusual rhythms as 10/8 or 7/4; Bolling has created a unique world that blends both styles with the same base language and amalgamates the instrumental base with guest instrument, allowing the soloist look in their abilities and their characteristics, while Bolling, pianist, does not lose space as playful interpreter and lets his piano explodes in all its dimensions in the style of old New Orleans (forgive the oxymoron).

In many of the movements of the suites Bolling we observe how, while the solo instrument stands out in sobriety, classicism, virtuosity, jazz base develops in your particular inventive play. It is a privilege and a delight.