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Martial Solal Live at the Village Vanguard (CamJazz). The CD's subtitle is I Can't Give You Anything but Love. In this recital, the French pianist gives his listeners more than love. We get architectural thinking, drollery, daring, virtuosity that includes astonishing mastery of meter, and chord voicings that illuminate like fireworks. Solal was 80 when this ...
Lee Konitz / Martial Solal: Star Eyes
by Matthew Miller
Lee Konitz and Martial Solal were in the 15th year of their recorded relationship in the fall of 1983 and their easy rapport is evident within the first notes of “Just Friends," the breezy opener of Star Eyes. After a cursory harmonic introduction by Konitz, Solal enters with a characteristically buoyant counterpoint that sends the altoist ...
Solo Septuagenarian/Octogenerian Piano: Abdullah Ibrahim, Ran Blake, Paul Bley & Martial Solal
by Ken Dryden
Abdullah Ibrahim Senzo Sunnyside 2008 Ran Blake Driftwoods Tompkins Square 2009 Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 2008 Martial Solal Live at ...
Marian Petrescu Quartet at the Jazz Standard (NYC) on June 16th
Some may call it hubris to introduce Marian Petrescu with an album in which he is asked to step into the shoes of a uniquely accomplished and intimidating virtuoso. But that assumption evaporates in an instant, once the music of Resonance Big Band Plays the Legacy of Oscar Peterson begins. That's all it takes to make ...
10th Bray Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...
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 ...
