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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Jacques Loussier Trio brings a special jazzy sound to music by Bach. From a concert the Trio played at Purchase College, we hear Bach's Fugue No. 5.