Results for "The Christian Jacob Trio"

The Christian Jacob Trio: Live in Japan

by Jack Bowers
April 17, 2009

Christian Jacob, surely one of the jazz world's most overlooked and underrated pianists, is enormously popular in Japan, where he was invited to perform a series of concerts in October 2007 with his working trio and to record selected numbers from each to comprise the album Live in Japan. Jacob, who can caress the keyboard as ...

The Christian Jacob Trio: Contradictions

by Jack Bowers
September 9, 2006

As readers should know by now, I have deep admiration for pianist Christian Jacob, whose praises I have sung whenever the opportunity arose. He is, simply put, one of the finest jazz pianists on the scene, and those who've not heard him play have missed a thoroughly pleasurable experience. On Contradictions, Jacob salutes another marvelous pianist, ...

The Christian Jacob Trio: Styne & Mine

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2005

At Ken Poston's all-star tribute to trumpeter Maynard Ferguson in Los Angeles last October, the pianist for most groups, large or small, was Maynard's son-in-law, Christian Jacob, who didn't land the gig because of family connections. When Tierney Sutton, who has worked with Jacob for nearly a dozen years and is the guest vocalist on “Guess ...

Styne & Mine

Label: WilderJazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Just in Time; It's You or No One; Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry; Never Never Land; Lydia's Crush; Piece One; Piece Two; Piece Three; People; As Long as There's Music; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Time After Time; The Party's Over (64:56).

Time Lines

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: In a Mellotone; Innocence; Guess Again; I

The Christian Jacob Trio: Time Lines

by Jim Santella
March 1, 1999

When he became music director for Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau band in 1990, pianist Christian Jacob was just taking the next logical step on his musical journey. The 40-year-old pianist was born in Lorraine, France and studied classical piano. His first introduction to jazz came through the jazz “tinge" contained in music by Claude Debussy, ...