Artist: Martial Solal Newdecaband
Album: Exposition sans tableau
Genre: Post-Bop, Modern Creative
Label: Nocturne
Released: 2006
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Incoercible (7:21)
- Western (7:12)
- A Frail Dance (10:00)
- Cortancyl (6:05)
- Exposition sans tableau (6:36)
- Lamblike (6:24)
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- Personnel:
- Martial Solal - piano, composer
- Claude Egea, Eric Le Lann - trumpet
- Lionel Surin - cornet
- Claudia Solal - vocals
- Denis Leloup, Marc Roger - trombone
- Francois Thuilliez - tuba
- Thomas Grimmonprez - percussion
- Jean-Philippe Morel - electric bass, acoustic bass
Recorded near the end of December 2005 and released on Nocturne Records in early 2007, Martial Solal's Exposition Sans Tableau finds him at the center of his Newdecaband, an exactly halved edition of his highly acclaimed 12-piece Dodecaband. This bracing ride through six Solal originals features the wild but artfully controlled wordless vocals of daughter Claudia Solal amidst a cluster of two trumpets, trombone, and percussion. Born in Algeria in 1927, this brilliant pianist worked with Django Reinhardt and Sidney Bechet, and achieved international fame for his punchy music used in the soundtrack for Jean Luc Godard's sensationally unconventional film A Bout de Souffle, which was reissued by Emarcy in 2003. To some extent, Solal's angular compositions may be somewhat reminiscent of the music he scored for Godard, especially when the changes are vividly spelled out in brass, and that's pretty exciting. Like much of his later ensemble work, this is supremely well-crafted, modern creative jazz, fully in touch with where the music has been and boldly indicating where it still wants and needs to go.
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