Jacques Loussier

Jacques Loussier , born with Angers the October 26th 1934 is a musician French

Play Bach

It is caught passion for the piano at 10 years. It enters at 16 years to the Conservatoire of Paris the class of Yves Nat. There low, he often has fun to make Jazz resumptions of the traditional type-setters. Opened at the rates/rhythms of a little everywhere, it spends then two years to Cuba. In France, he is guides of artists such as Frank Alamo, Catherine Sauvage or Charles Aznavour. In 1959, it creates the Trio Play Bach with Christian Garros with the battery and Pierre Michelot with the double bass. The principle: to make swinger the repertory of Jean-Sebastien Bach. Thanks to the quality of arrangements of Jacques Loussier (and thanks to the talent of JS Bach of course), the concept carries out well the listeners beyond the potachery which one could expect and success is durable: 6 million sold discs, 15 years of rounds.

Reprocess

Television and the cinema call upon Jacques Loussier. It composes for Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Delannoy, Michel Audiard or Alain Jessua, then he is in particular the author of the credits of Thierry the Sling and Vidocq (in particular season 2, with its virginal “swing”).
In 1980, it disperses the Trio Play Bach and is withdrawn in Provence, with Miraval where it assembled a studio of recording of international class (where will record Pink Floyd, Sade, The Cure, Courtney Love, The Cranberries, Téléphone, UB40, Level 42, etc) lost in the of the department of Var vineyard and is devoted to the music research and composes in particular for synthétiseurs.
Avec the percussionnist Luc Heller it records Pulsion (made famous for a publicity EDF of the time), Under the Sea and Pagan Moon .

Like-Bach

In 1985, for the tercentenary one of the birth of Bach it is requested in the whole world and reforms the Trio Play Bach with André Arpino with the percussions and Vincent Charbonnier with the contrebasse.
In 1996, it signs a mass, “Lights”, for contreténor, soprano, chorus, percussions and orchestra.
Since, it composed a certain number of pieces of music and continues its exploration of the traditional ones: Vivaldi, Satie, Debussy,…

Lawsuit

In April 2002, Jacques Loussier claimed 10 million dollars of damages to the singer Eminem whom he shows to have plagiarized the rhythmic one of Pulsion for his title Kill You', lawsuit that he gained besides in 2006.

External bonds

loussier.com
Jacques Loussier on IMDB
studiomiraval.com the studio Miraval

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