Martial Solal Newdecaband at Jazz Festival Imaxina Sons (Vigo, Spain)

Martial Solal (Algeria, 1927) is one of the living legends of piano. Not many people worldwide can match his mastery in the use of the eighty eight keys of his musical instrument. Amazingly, this experienced eighty-three-year-old pianist still practices for several hours every single day: hard work is the foundation of his skill.

And that skill has led some critics to claim that he is one of the very few pianists who can translate immediately into his keyboard whatever goes through his imagination. In his early stages he played with Django Reinhardt and gained prominence by composing extraordinary sound tracks for first-class French films....

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Martial Solal (Algeria, 1927) is one of the living legends of piano. Not many people worldwide can match his mastery in the use of the eighty eight keys of his musical instrument. Amazingly, this experienced eighty-three-year-old pianist still practices for several hours every single day: hard work is the foundation of his skill.

And that skill has led some critics to claim that he is one of the very few pianists who can translate immediately into his keyboard whatever goes through his imagination. In his early stages he played with Django Reinhardt and gained prominence by composing extraordinary sound tracks for first-class French films.

Undoubtedly, his participation in Imaxina Sons was a much expected event: it was a matter of time, and an excellent opportunity for a jazz festival which drinks from the sources of European jazz, of which Solal is a referent

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