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Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ottanta sono gli anni di questo geniale musicista, festeggiati in uno dei templi moderni del jazz. Favorita dalla dimensione live, la musica proposta al Village Vanguard si snoda all'insegna dell'imprevedibilità armonica, con in più il furore sacro della vis improvvisativa. “On Green Dolphin Street" apre la sequenza di pagine memorabili, dove la narrazione appassionante del pianista ...
Hal Schaefer: How Do You Like This Piano Playing?
by C. Michael Bailey
Hal Schaefer is a Hollywood musician jack-of-all-trades, at one time or another serving as a pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor. He got his professional start in the big bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Carter, and Harry James. However, Schaefer kept the doors open by serving as a vocal coach to celebrities otherwise not singers, including ...
Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Martial Solal is a nuclear physicist of the piano. He tinkers with the subatomic structure of compositions, moving elements around, pulling them apart, and smashing them together in ways that both surprise and delight. Solal was born Algiers in 1927, settling in Paris in 1950 where he worked with Django Reinhardt and American expatriates Sidney Bechet ...
Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, Italy
by Thomas Conrad
Umbria Jazz Winter, 16th EditionOrvieto, ItalyDecember 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Umbria Jazz Winter has a very different vibe from the huge Umbria Jazz summer festival in Perugia. It is too cold for all-night conga parties in the piazzas. There is more intimacy and more concentration on the music. The winter sunlight ...
Martial Solal Trio: Longitude
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il Gran Maestro del pianismo jazz moderno firma per la Cam l’ennesimo capolavoro della sua lunga straordinaria carriera solistica. Come accade in ogni suo disco, è esemplare la coerenza di una poetica sempre alla ricerca di una precisa identità, qui rivolta ad immergersi nei fitti intrecci ritmici dell’universo percussivo. Alla base vi è il solito pianismo ...
Martial Solal Trio: Longitude
by John Kelman
Oftentimes the best free players are those with a firm footing in the jazz tradition. Few have demonstrated as uncanny an ability to straddle the line between form and freedom as Martial Solal, a European pianist who has eluded his due credit in North America. Like the slightly younger Paul Bley, Solal has an ability to ...
Martial Solal to Release "Longitude" on CAM Jazz
"On this wonderful record, Martial Solal navigates the longitude and latitudes of music with supreme command and assurance." --Dan Morgenstern The dictionary defines longitude as “the angular distance east and west of the prime meridian that stretches from the North to the South Pole and passes through Greenwich, England, and is measured in degrees, ...
Solitude
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Darn That Dream (Van Heusen/De lange) - 4;49; 02. Caravan (D. Ellington) - 6:27; 03. Our Love Is Here to Stay (George - Ira
Gershwin) - 3:51; 04. Chi va piano (M. Solal) - 4:05; 05. Medium (M. Solal) - 6:18; 06. Bluesline (M. Solal) - 5:51; 07. On A
Clear Day (Burton/Alan) - 5:04. 08. In My Solitude (Ellington/Mills) - 5:49. Darn That Dream (Van Heusen/De Lange) - 5:28.
Martial Solal: Solal Seul
by George Kanzler
Lorraine Gordon has been trying to persuade pianist Martial Solal to return to the Village Vanguard ever since his unfortunately timed debut there, with a trio, in September of 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Solal, claiming he was too lazy at his age to travel to New York (he was 80 this August, 2007), kept ...
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