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Martial Solal

Born: August 23, 1927

Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria) isa French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably mostwidely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard'sdebut feature film À bout de souffle (1960).

Solal was the son of an opera singer and piano teacher, wholearnt the instrument from the age of six, settling inParis in 1950. He soon began working with leading musiciansincluding Django Reinhardt and expatriates from the UnitedStates like Sidney Bechet and Don Byas. He formed a quartet(occasionally also leading a big band) in the late 1950s,although he had been recording as a leader since 1953.Solal then began composing film music, eventually providingover twenty scores.

Mal Waldron: Free At Last

by Karl Ackermann
December 19, 2019

The sensitivity reflected in much of Mal Waldron's music was a deep aspect of his psyche. The Harlem-born pianist, who died in Brussels, Belgium, in 2002, worked downtown with saxophonist Ike Quebec at Café Society in the early 1950s and went on to record on several Charles Mingus recordings including Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic), Jazz Composers Workshop ...

Manuel Rocheman

Born: July 23, 1964

Manuel Rocheman comes from a family of musicians. On his mother’s side, his grandmother is a piano teacher, his grandfather a flautist, his mother Danièle Alpers plays cello and viola and his aunt the violin. His father, Lionel Rocheman (guitarist and actor), created the “Hootenanny” at the American Center in Paris, where performers came from around the world. As a 10 year old his brother gave him a wonderful record of Oscar Peterson playing solo (it was ‘Tracks’); Manuel already had his own track-record of four years of piano. Listening to the Canadian virtuoso gave him a great feeling of freedom and made him want to go down the same road

My One And Only Love: Live at Theater Gütersloh

By Martial Solal

Label: Intuition
Released: 2018
Track listing: Have You Met Miss Jones?; Medley Duke Ellington: Caravan, Prelude To A Kiss, Sophisticated Lady, Satin Doll, Take The "A" Train; Sir Jack; Coming Yesterday; Köln Duet; My One And Only Love; Body And Soul; Night And Day; Marche Turque; All The Things You Are; Night In Tunisia; Tea For Two; Sir Jack; Interview.

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2018

by Dan Bilawsky
November 30, 2018

Every little bit of the year 2018 will soon take form as memory--first recent, then distant--but the fine music gifted to us in those twelve months will be forever present, living on in ears, hearts and minds. I had the pleasure of hearing north of 400 albums this past year, and I had the privilege of ...

Lajos Dudas: Return to the Future

by C. Michael Bailey
October 7, 2018

German-Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas shows little inclination in slowing things down as he turns 78 years young next birthday. He has stopped for the moment to program an informative retrospective of his lengthy career in Return to the Future, a collection of ten live performances bookended by two quartet performances in Cologne in 1979 and 2013. ...

Meet Jacob Cartwright

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
August 6, 2018

Our August Super Fan is a visual artist with a special affinity for improvisational music, which has spilled over into his jazz-themed painting series. In jazz, as in art, Jacob Cartwright values the past while embracing the forward momentum of the new. Plus he's really “down with the jazz cats"--read on to see what we mean! ...

Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems

by C. Michael Bailey
June 11, 2018

Recorded originally in 1995 and released on No More Records, Matthew Shipp's Symbol Systems finds new life on Hatology in 2018. This was Shipp's first solo-piano recording whose genesis lay in the ideas of producer Alan Schneider. The recording is the result of a day spent in the studio by Shipp effusing what Shipp described to ...

Martial Solal: My One And Only Love: Live at Theater Gütersloh

by Dan Bilawsky
May 11, 2018

English poet Samuel Johnson famously and accurately remarked that “He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties." With that statement, Johnson essentially cut to the ultimate truth behind man's battle with mortality, the powers of change, and the swift dominance of the aging process. But he didn't say it all. What he ...

Seven Women 2018 – Part V

by C. Michael Bailey
May 9, 2018

An embarrassment of riches... Shirley Crabbe Bridges MaiSong Music 2018 Vocalist Shirley Crabbe's 2011 debut recording, Home (Self Produced), was very well received, with critic Edward Blanco noting that the singer has, ..."a warm approach to the music, her smooth vocals seem a perfect fit for voicing ...