French jazz pianist who loved to improvise and wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s film A Bout de Souffle A squint through the metal fence around Martial Solal’s tree-shrouded villa, in Chatou, the ...
Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered style alongside American musicians in postwar Paris and became a master of mood-rich improvisations that included the pulsing ...
Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there. By David A. Andelman Reporting from Paris Martial ...
Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria) isa French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably mostwidely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard'sdebut feature film À bout de ...