1988
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Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria, [1] to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, and piano by his mother, who was an opera singer. [2] He was expelled from school in 1942 because of his parents' Jewish ancestry. Algeria was a French colony, and the Vichy regime in France was following Nazi policies.
Martial Solal, né le 23 août 1927 à Alger ( Algérie française ), est un pianiste de jazz, compositeur, arrangeur et chef d'orchestre français . Sa carrière débute dans les années 1950, au cours desquelles il enregistre notamment avec Django Reinhardt et Sidney Bechet.
Sep 21, 2017 · The French pianist Martial Solal has the rare ability to accommodate his playing to widely varying styles, which is impressively demonstrated in this recordi...
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Apr 5, 2018 · WHITEHEAD: Martial Solal's improvising is often playful or unpredictable. Sometimes he'll bend the form of a tune with an unscheduled interview. In jocular moments, he's described jazz as a music ...
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Martial Solal Follow Artist + French pianist, composer, and bandleader whose intuitive approach to improvisation earned him an honored place among other jazz greats.
May 20, 2010 · Martial Solal is quite simply a living legend. John Fordham visits the 82-year-old jazz pianist in Paris. John Fordham. Thu 20 May 2010 17.00 EDT. M artial Solal lives in Chatou – the island ...
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Jan 8, 2009 · Martial Solal keeps a Macintosh computer in almost every room of his house in the suburbs of Paris. "I'm crazy about those machines," Solal says. "I have five computers in the house." He uses them ...
