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Take Five With Franck Amsallem
by AAJ Staff
Meet Franck Amsallem: Mickey Mac: Franck Amsallem has been a professional pianist and composer for over 30 years. As a leader he has released seven cds, all of which have received rare critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the great names in jazz: Gerry Mulligan, Charles Lloyd, Gary Bartz, Sonny Fortune, Bobby Watson, ...
Martial Solal Nominated for Grammy Award for "Live at Village Vanguard" Solo Release on CAM Jazz
Martial Solal is a man who wastes little including musical space and words. When informed he had just been nominated on December 3, 2009, for a Grammy Award for his January 2009 solo recording, Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love," he said, “Good news." On the nominated disc, Solal is ...
It's The Drummer, Stupid
by Mark Corroto
If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to “shoot the pianist," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste. Truth be told, the most effective way to pull the plug on a jazz band, a very good jazz band, is to take out the drummer. An ...
Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: Star Eyes 1983
by Glenn Astarita
This CD reissue of the original vinyl release signifies a timeless program between two giants of modern jazz. French pianist Martial Solal and American alto saxophonist Lee Konitz are two stylists who merge years of experience for a collaboration of synergistic interplay, serving as a motivating factor here. Solal's legendary performances with Django Reinhardt and other ...
Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: "Star Eyes 1983" on Hatology 668
Lee Konitz & Martial Solal Star Eyes 1983 Hatology 668 A live concert recording at New-Jazz-Festival Hamburg on November 11th, 1983. In their duo, Solal's gift to Konitz is a liberation from... inherent restrictions. This in turn inspires Konitz to follow his own lyrical impulses to the extreme listen to how often ...
Recent Listening: Martial Solal
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, ...
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