Composer Michel Portal also plays the clarinet, the saxophone and the small accordion or bandonion. A musician whom it is difficult to classify because he offers so much across arange of categories, ...

Michel Portal’s transatlantic collaboration blends the easy-going riffs and dancing melodies of Mediterranean-inflected jazz with New York’s bite and flow. Drummer Jack DeJohnette delivers ...

Musicians like Eric Dolphy were attacked with those same questions, but there were those on the other side who said, Born in 1935 in Bayonne, France, reedman Michel Portal has the unique position of ...

French saxophonist Michel Portal is also one of the world's great classical clarinettists, and a restless musical experimenter. In this week's Jazz Library, prior to a concert at the London Jazz ...

French reeds player Michel Portal is a free-improvisation veteran, who once played alongside Stockhausen. So it’s a surprise to find him leading a straight jazz album, especially one as melodious and ...

Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz" ...

Ahead of a concert at the 2011 London Jazz Festival, French saxophonist and classical clarinettist Michel Portal joins Alyn Shipton to pick some of the best examples of his music. Show more French ...