Martial Solal - Solitude

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:03
Size: 110,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:51)  1. Darn That Dream
(6:29)  2. Caravan
(3:53)  3. Our Love Is Here to Stay
(4:07)  4. Chi Va Piano...
(6:20)  5. Medium
(5:53)  6. Bluesine
(5:06)  7. On a Clear Day
(5:51)  8. In My Solitude
(5:28)  9. Darn That Dream (alternate take)

Recorded at two sessions in late April 2005 and released by CAM Jazz exactly two years later, Solitude is a gratifying reminder that at the age of 77, Algerian pianist Martial Solal was still a formidably creative improviser. The album, which begins and ends with complementary bookend versions of "Darn That Dream," is sprinkled with standards by Ellington and Gershwin and a '60s pop tune, as well as three Solal originals. One of these is titled with an abbreviation of an old Italian saying which translates as: "He who goes softly, goes safely. He who goes safely goes far." Solal's next recordings, made when he was 80 years old, would be Longitude, a trio album with François and Louis Moutin, and the highly acclaimed Live at the Village Vanguard. As for Solitude, the album will endure as a welcome return to the terrain visited years earlier on his album En Solo. ~ arwulf arwulf  http://www.allmusic.com/album/solitude-mw0001517605

Solitude

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