Claudia Solal
Claudia Solal (born March 30, 1971 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French jazz singer and composer .
Live and act
Solal, daughter of the pianist Martial Solal , first received piano lessons from her father before she decided to sing. She attended various conservatories and took lessons from Christiane Legrand and François Théberge .
She founded her first quartet with Baptiste Trotignon . With Médéric Collignon and Lê Duy Xuân she formed the experimental improvisation trio La théorie du chaos . Since 2002 she is also part of Newdecaband of her father and the orchestra Danzas of Jean-Marie Machado . In 2006 she also formed the Spoonbox quartet , with whom she first appeared at Jazz in Marciac . She also went with Yves Rousseau's program Poète, vos papiers! , which presented chansons by Léo Ferré , on tour. She can also be heard on albums by Jean-Marc Padovani , François Théberge / Lee Konitz , Eric Surménian and Françoise Toullec. She also worked with Carol Robinson, Mimi Lorenzini , Han Buhrs , Pascale Labbé, Phil Minton , Sainkho Namtchylak , Maggie Nicols and Tania Pividori.
Solal taught singing at the Jazz Department of the Strasbourg Conservatory and since 2006 at the Paris Regional Conservatory.
Discographic notes
- My Own Foolosophy (1998, with Baptiste Trotignon, Arnault Cuisinier, Thomas Grimmonprez )
- Martial Solal Exposition sans tableau (2006)
- Yves Rousseau Poète, vos papiers! (2007)
- Claudia Solal / Benjamin Moussay Porridge Day (2009)
- Claudia Solal Spoonbox Room Service (2010)
Web links
- Web presence
- Claudia Solal at Allmusic (English)
Lexical entry
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . R. Laffont: Paris 2011
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solal, Claudia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |