The Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, composed by Claude Bolling for Jean-Pierre Rampal, came out when I was in junior high school. I don't know about the rest of the country, but it was an immediate hit among all the flutists I knew, myself included. I think there probably was a run on the sheet music when it came out.
Bolling followed it with a number of other jazz suites for cello, violin, and chamber orchestra, the Toot Suite for Trumpet, the Picnic Suite for flute and guitar, the jazz concerto for guitar, a jazz sonata for two pianos, and a second flute suite.
This was the first of the Bolling jazz suites, and it's still my favorite - and lots of fun to play! The lilting "Javanaise" is the third movement.
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