The French composer Claude Bolling, a renowned jazz performer, pianist-arranger and conductor, has also written music for films and backed Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel and Juliette Greco, amongst others, in commercial recording sessions. In the 1970s he won even greater acclaim for ingenious semi-classical, cross-over ‘jazz essays’. The baroque-inspired Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio No. 1, first performed by Bolling with its dedicatee, the flautist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, was an overnight success. Now a regular set-piece in conservatories around the world, it has become a staple of the flute repertoire.