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Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927) [1] is a French jazz pianist and composer. Biography. 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.
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."
Profile: French jazz pianist and composer, born on August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria. Martial Solal composed the scores to more then 40 movies including Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) in 1960. Sites: Wikipedia , Wikipedia , Imdb , All Music , musicbrainz.org. Aliases:
Dec 28, 2019 · Arguably the greatest French jazz pianist (also a composer and big band leader), Martial Solal began his recording career in 1953, playing on Django Reinhardt’s last studio session. Born to French parents in Algiers on 23 August, 1927, he was encouraged by his mother, an opera singer, to play clarinet, saxophone and piano.
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The legendary French composer, jazz pianist, and improviser Martial Solal was born on August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria, to French parents. He was taught to play the piano by his mother, who sang opera.
French pianist Martial Solal has been a major musical voice since the 1950’s. Solal’s playing can be heard on many MPS records, solo albums like Nothing but Piano or The Solosolal as well as a handful of collaboration albums like Zoller Koller Solal or his live album with Lee Konitz, Live at the Berlin Jazz Days 1980, probabbly his most ...
