Jacques Loussier was born in Angers, in northwestern France, October 26, 1934. He started playing piano at the age of ten and quickly demonstrated tremendous ability. When Loussier was just sixteen, ...

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 ...

Following the sad news that the Bach-loving jazz pianist Jacques Loussier has died, we've delved into the archive to find one of his most irresistible performances Jacques Loussier, the jazz pianist ...

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 on March 5 at a hospital in ...

The Jacques Loussier Trio represents something of an anomaly a musical ensemble devoted to presenting jazzedup versions of traditional classical pieces The group originated in the late 1950s via the ...

"That was a surprise," murmured Jacques Loussier, the gnomic 68-year-old French pianist, after a five-minute double-bass soliloquy on a Bach chorale - from his nimble colleague Benoit Dunoyer De ...

These days music lovers are inclined to disregard the rusty sectarianisms that used to keep genres apart, with elite art supposedly towering over scruffy popular entertainment. But during the early ...

As part of "Think Global," Public Radio's week of special coverage, Performance Today has been exploring connections between folk music and classical music all week. Today, we wrap things up with what ...

At the age of 10, Jacques Loussier was practising Bach fugues and preludes as an eager young piano student. At 25, he premiered his first recording of Bach's compositions, filtered through his own ...