Performed live on May 4th, 2022 as part of Christopher Keach's final Master's Recital.

Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano by Claude Bolling

I. Allegre

V. Vesperale

III. Rag Polka 16:19

Christopher Keach, trumpet/flugelhorn/cornet

Cedric de Saint-Rome, piano

Ben Boardman, bass

Paulo Riccardo, percussion

Program Notes:

Claude Bolling, 1930-2020, was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor. He studied at the Nice Conservatory, and then in Paris. As a composer, Bolling wrote 75 film scores, 44 television scores, 14 big band arrangements, and 11 “crossover compositions” that have featured piano, flute, guitar, violin, trumpet, and cello. One of these “crossover compositions,” Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano, was written in 1981 and premiered by Maurice Andre, trumpet, with Claude Bolling on the piano in the same year. In this composition, Bolling was strongly influenced by performing with jazz cornetist Rex Stewart and trumpeter Roy Eldridge.