Claude Bolling & Yo-Yo Ma Claude Bolling's Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio (Vinyl, CBS Records, 1984) ***
Genre: Jazz piano
Places I remember: Amoeba Music (LA), Record Surplus (Santa Monica)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Galop (with Yo-Yo Ma)
Gear costume: California Suite
Active compensatory factors: Claude manages to attract quality collaborators. Yo-Yo Ma and Hubert Laws are on display here and each manages to stretch themselves against the jazz piano format.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Galop (with Yo-Yo Ma)
Gear costume: California Suite
Maybe it's because I bought these while visiting California recently and they were super cheap (California was $1.99 in Amoeba Music) but I think these are both super additions to my Claude Bolling section in the jazz piano genre.
The California set captures the cool, laid back LA vibe especially well and Yo-Yo Ma adds an edginess to proceedings that makes that album stand out.
Claude's piano is always a brilliant counterpoint when needed or a solo vehicle that assists the song - he's never show-offy, just always coolly in command.
Where do they all belong? And that should now do it for a while, unless I find his Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano with Alexander Lagoya in my travels that is.
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