Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...

Quarante-cinq ans après Play Bach, pionnières improvisations jazz sur de la musique classique, Jacques Loussier n’est toujours pas prophète en son pays. Très sollicité à l'étranger où il a construit ...

Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...

Is to swing Bach also to soften Bach? For pianist Jacques Loussier, who began cross-filtering classical and jazz more than 40 years ago, the question still nags, as it did Thursday night at UCLA’s ...

Un des grands messieurs du jazz français, Jacques Loussier, se produira ce soir, à 20h30, dans le cadre du Festival de jazz de Beyrouth. Depuis 1959, son nom est inséparable de Jean-Sébastien Bach, qu ...

Friday 6 May 2005 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3) Since his work in Play Bach Trio, pianist Jacques Lousier has carved a definite niche for his style of jazz. Julian Joseph talks to him about his improvisations ...

Jacques Loussier, a French pianist who led a trio that performed jazzy interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach, selling millions of albums and touring the world, died March 5 at a hospital in Blois, ...

When he left the Paris Conservatory in 1953, fringe-bearded French Pianist-Composer Jacques Loussier, now 27, took a hasty look at the world of classical music—and decided it was no place to earn a ...

Bach composed his last notes in the 1740s. Jazz didn't take off until the first decades of the 1900s. Bach is very much Old World. Jazz epitomizes everything that makes America seem fresh, new and ...

Jacques Loussier (26 October 1934 – 5 March 2019) was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the Goldberg Variations.