Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano is a "crossover" composition by the jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...

. The composition, originally written in 1973, is a suite of seven songs, written for a classical flute

Western concert flute

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, and a jazz piano trio (piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, string bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

, and drums).

The suite was recorded in 1975 by Bolling, classical flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal

Jean-Pierre Rampal

Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."-Early years:...

, bassist Max Hédiguer, and drummer Marcel Sabiani, and originally released on 12" LP

LP album

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 by CBS Masterworks Records and Columbia Masterworks. In the U.S., the album was nominated in 1975 for a Grammy award

Grammy Award

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 in the "Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal" category. A video recording of Bolling and Rampal playing the Suite was recorded in 1976 at the Palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles

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 in France, and was released on LaserVision video disc and on videotape. Eventually, under the title, Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, digital CD

Compact Disc

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 and DVD

DVD

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 versions of the respective audio and video recordings were also released. In 1986, Bolling and Rampal released Bolling's later composition, Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio No. 2.

Track listing

LP side A:

1. "Baroque and Blue" – 5:18
2. "Sentimentale" – 7:45
3. "Javanaise" – 5:15

LP side B:

1. "Fugace" – 3:50
2. "Irlandaise" – 2:59
3. "Versatile" – 5:07
4. "Véloce" – 3:40

all compositions by Bolling

Personnel

• Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."-Early years:...
  
   — flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , bass flute
  Bass flute
  The bass flute is the bass member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Because of the length of its tube , it is usually made with a "J" shaped head joint, which brings the embouchure hole within reach of the player...
  
   on "Versatile"
• Claude Bolling
  Claude Bolling
  Claude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...
  
   — piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Max Hédiguer — bass
• Marcel Sabiani — drums