Solal

After capturing the soul, without slavishly imitating the body, of another jazz standard, Mr. Solal wound up with "What Is This Thing Called Love" and then "'Round Midnight" as an encore.

The Modern Sounds of Yore Will Friedwald 2011

"A box is a box," said Isabelle Solal, TMS's head of integrity and compliance.

Peter Lim's fund for young sports people is praised by Gary Neville 2011

If any living musician lives up to Whitney Balliett's definition of jazz as "the sound of surprise," it's the unfailingly inventive Algerian pianist Marial Solal, who proves that pure melody and sheer abstraction aren't mutually exclusive.

The Modern Sounds of Yore Will Friedwald 2011

The 2010 Bath International Festival jazz weekend will be a magnet for jazz piano trio fans (Django Bates's Charlie Parker-devoted threesome plays on Monday), and Solal plays this gig with gifted bass and drums siblings François and Louis Moutin.

This week's new live music amp; John Robinson 2010

Solal, who broke out of the jazz loop back in 1960 by composing the score to Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic A Bout De Souffle, is immersed in classical music as well as jazz.

This week's new live music amp; John Robinson 2010

Solal, nimble bassist François Moutin and his drummer brother Louis Moutin then jolted effusively between scampering melodies resolving in chord jangles, or versions of hits such as Caravan and Tea for Two with the themes batted around, grafted into Stravinskyesque harmonies and generally subjected to the astonishing Solal's capricious will.

Bath festival 2010

Annie Cohen-Solal (b. 1948), born in Algeria, is best known for her biography of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, but, with a Ph.D. in literature from the Sorbonne, she has taught at both French and foreign universities and has also published on American art.

France, Modern. 2009

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal (French), Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine) and Christoph H.

No Fat Clips!!! : GOTAN PROJECT – Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre) 2007

Gotan Project è un gruppo musicale francese, formato dai musicisti Philippe Cohen Solal (francese), Eduardo Makaroff (argentino) e Christoph H.

No Fat Clips!!! : GOTAN PROJECT – Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre) 2007

Some are for fashion and advertising: for instance, Eve Solal, Daniel Robichaud's Digital Marlene or Alceu M Baptistao's Kaya, interesting for Baptistao's use of imperfection to achieve realism ( "the beret is a cheap trick to avoid showing hair").

Hyper-realistic art Ray Girvan 2003