The great French Jazz pianist and composer Martial Solal was born on the 23rd August 1927 in Algiers French Algeria North Africa. In the 60s his regular trio featured Guy Pedersen on Bass and Daniel Humair on Drums and from 1968 onwards he performed and recorded with the great Lee Konitz not only in Europe but also the U.S.A. Solal has continued to record and perform and has written a piano method book called ‘Jazz Works’. He continued to enthral his audiences and classes his own work as ‘an eternal researcher of Jazz’. His influences during a long career are Fats Waller Errol Garner Thelonious Monk but he has his own unique and improvising style and is certainly one of the Jazz scene’s most professional and accomplished pianists as the recordings on this compilation will clearly demonstrate.

CD 1:
1. Blues Martial
2. I Can’t Get Started
3. Pars Je T’Aime D’Amour
4. Tenderly
5. Cherokee
6. Steeple Chase
7. Fascinating Rhythm
8. Too Marvellous for Words
9. Everything I Got Is Yours
10. Sadi’s Sad
11. Au 4eme Top
12. Don’t Blame Me
13. There’s a Small Hotel (2)
14. Horloge Parlante
15. All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm
16. Ridikool
17. They Say That Falling in Love Is Wonderful
18. I Remember You
19. Blues for Albert

CD 2:
1. Why Not
2. Cross Your Heart
3. Yoga
4. Tout Bleu
5. Midi 1/4
6. Love Walked In
7. Frenesi
8. Have You Met Miss Jones
9. But Not for Me
10. Jive at Five
11. Time on My Hands
12. I Cover the Waterfront
13. Derniere Minute
14. Caravan
15. Everything Happens to Me
16. Love Me or Leave Me
17. There’s a Small Hotel
18. The Way You Look Tonight