Now besieged with requests for
classical
/
jazz
"suites" for himself and big-time
performers,
Claude Bolling
took up violinist
Pinchas Zukerman
's commission, and out came another attractive confection that allows a
cat to play quasi-jazzman for a day. This time,
Bolling
chooses mostly
dance forms for his eight movements, still inserting mostly
mainstream jazz
segments (and a few vintage ones) around and under his soloist without getting him involved. Although he isn't asked to play
,
Zukerman
's warm, Romantic-era-grounded virtuosity doesn't betray even a hint of feeling for it; that makes
's close-knit merger even more remarkable. On
"Tango,"
the compulsively restless
switches to viola; elsewhere he sticks to the violin.
Max Hediguer
(bass) and
Marcel Sabiani
(drums) provide the propulsive rhythm in chosen spots, and
still manages to swing hard even when playing underneath the square, heavy
tone. ~ Richard S. Ginell