SIXE Quartet

In 1975, flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal confided in French composer Claude Bolling: he longed to play jazz, yet his training was strictly classical. From this desire, the Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio was born (nominated for a Grammy in the same year), a brilliant fusion of Baroque and jazz. The piece combines increasingly free-flowing classical writing for the flute with a jazz trio featuring piano, double bass, and drums. The musicians of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, also rooted in classical training, demonstrate that these two genres are not as distant as they might seem.