Search results for "Martial Solal"

Martial Solal: A Night in Tunisia (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

It's utterly impossible to predict how Martial Solal will play the most familiar standards. He's likely to start at t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: All The Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

It must have seemed strange, in the late stages of a "war" between jazz traditionalists and supporters of the bop rev...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Triangle (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

When Martial Solal looks for American musicians as partners for a trio session, he goes for the best: Teddy Kotick an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Suite pour une frise (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

Martial Solal had already recorded this "suite" the year before with his French trio, but to present this 11-minute p...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Accalmie (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

You can always count on Martial Solal for a pun. Many of his titles play on words that can't be translated from Frenc...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Cortancyl (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

Martial Solal loves writing for large ensembles and has done so as often as he could, which is not very often, at lea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Tea for Two (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 08, 08

At age 80, Martial Solal exhibits more energy and youthful enthusiasm in his playing than most pianists half his age....

Martial Solal: Corcovado (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

When Martial Solal played the Vanguard alone in 2007, he was the second pianist ever, after Fred Hersch, to be grante...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Here's That Rainy Day (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 05, 08

Here's one version of "Rainy Day" where you can actually hear the storm. Martial Solal may have been almost 80 years...

Martial Solal: Cherokee (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

This truly is a reunion of European virtuosos. Solal, the French pianist, Niels-Henning Ørsted-Pedersen, the late Dan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal: Zag Zig (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Some have said that Solal is one of the most illustrious followers of Art Tatum, as far as sheer virtuosity is c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: Just Friends (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

These two had played together on and off for 15 years at the time of this meeting, and each time they reunited showed...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE LEE KONITZ DUETS

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Martial Solal & Lee Konitz: Stella by Starlight (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

This track is a historical event: it was recorded during the first meeting between Solal and Konitz. It's also the on...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal & Stéphane Grappelli: Nuages (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

Both are internationally known historical figures of French jazz. Each played with Django Reinhardt: Grappelli on the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Martial Solal & Johnny Griffin: You Stepped Out of A Dream (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

Those two veterans, despite both living in France and being about the best you can get on their respective instrument...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Lee Konitz: Duet for Saxophone and Drums, and Piano (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 16, 08

Saxophonist Lee Konitz's experience with free jazz dates back to the very first freely improvised jazz recordings: th...

Lee Konitz: Lover Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 16, 08

The remarkable professional relationship between saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal dates back to 1968'...

Lucky Thompson: A Distant Sound (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 19, 09

After playing and recording with Charlie Parker on the famous Dial sessions of 1946, Lucky Thompson was in demand. He...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

Motian, Paul (Stephen Paul) posted in Encyclopedia March 04, 08

Paul Motian is an American jazz drummer who splits his time evenly and effectively between the postwar styles of bebo...

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