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Martial Solal
Sign in to saveAlso known as Martial Solal Dodecaband, Martial Saoul Cohen-Solal
French jazz pianist and composer (1927–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Pièce de collection
- Ma vie sur un tabouret : Autobiographie
- Méthode d'improvisation
- Martial Solal
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Film & TV
Algiers, Algeria
Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria, 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…
Known for
- Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe — Self2006
- Victoires de la musique — Self1985
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
- Discorama — Self1959
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1927-08-23
- Active to
- 2024-12-12
Discography
- Modern Sounds: France1954
- Escale à Paris1956
- Réunion a Paris1956
- Martial Solal et son grand orchestre1958
- Martial Solal1960
- En Liberté1965
- Electrodes1966
- Zoller Koller Solal1966
- Fafasifa1967
- Action1969
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- 208,867
- Total plays
- 1,487,018
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Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria) is a French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature film À bout de souffle (1960). Solal was the son of an opera singer and piano teacher, who learnt the instrument from the age of six, settling in Paris in 1950. He soon began working with leading musicians including Django Reinhardt and expatriates from the United States like Sidney Bechet and Don Byas. <a hre
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Algiers
- Place of death
- Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- MPS Records
- Image
- Martial Solal (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Algiers
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- date of birth
- 1927-08-23
- Commons category
- Martial Solal
- name in native language
- Martial Saoul Cohen-Solal
- student
- Manuel Rocheman
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- date of death
- 2024-12-12
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
- birth name
- Martial Saul Cohen-Solal
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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