Claude Bolling: Plays Ray Charles

Label: FREMEAUX
Catalog: FA596
Format: CD

Claude Bolling

"PIANO : CLAUDE BOLLING o SAX SOLO : GÉRARD BADINI o AND THE BIG PIANO ORCHESTRA
DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : CLAUDE BOLLING / RÉÉDITIONS : PATRICK FRÉMEAUX & AUGUSTIN BONDOUX

WHAT'D I SAY o HIT THE ROAD JACK o YOU BE MY BABY o YES INDEED o UNCHAIN MY HEART o TELL ALL THE WORLD ABOUT YOU o PREACHIN' CHARLES o I'M MOVIN' ON o TELL ME HOW YOU DO o THAT'S ENOUGH o ONE MINT JULEP o TELL THE TRUTH o GEORGIA ON MY MIND."

Recorded in 1962, this album explodes with vitality. Just when teenagers were discovering the Twist on English and American records, pianist Claude Bolling avoided the trap of playing cover-versions and began writing jazz arrangements of rhythm & blues songs... and those who listened to the quality of Claude Bolling's swinging piano in this Big Band fronted by Gérard Badini immediately fell under its spell. Now reissued by Frémeaux & Associés in agreement with Claude Bolling, this is the dance-album which originally received the Charles Cros Academy Prize. Syncopation from the rhythm-section, efficient brass, a chorus well in place, plus the perfection of Claude Bolling s piano, demonstrate just how much this record deserved that prize. Patrick FRÉMEAUX

Price: $27.98