MARTIAL SOLAL
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Martial Solal (23 August 1927 – 12 December 2024) was a French jazz pianist and composer. Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria on 23 August 1927, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, and piano by his mother, who was an opera singer. 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. Solal educated himself after having studied classical music in school. He imitated music he heard on the radio. When he was 15, he performed publicly for United States Army audiences.
After settling in Paris in 1950, he began working with Django Reinhardt and U.S. expatriates such as Sidney Bechet and Don Byas. He formed a quartet (occasionally also leading a big band) in the late 1950s, although he had been recording as a
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Son 66
Hard Bop
1965
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Fafasifa
Jazz Related Soundtracks
1969
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Himself
Post Bop
1974
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Locomotion
Jazz Related Soundtracks
1974
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Big Band
Progressive Big Band
1984
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Les Acteurs
Jazz Related Soundtracks
2000
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Solal!
Hard Bop
1967
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En solo
Post Bop
1972
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