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Beautiful Jazz: A Private Concert

By Christian Jacob

Label: WilderJazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: How Long Has This Been Going On; That's All; It Might As Well Be Spring; Etude No. 4 In F# Major; My Romance; Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Tea For Two; I'm Old Fashioned; One Note Samba; Body And Soul; September Song; Giant Steps; Till The Clouds Roll By.

Christian Jacob: Beautiful Jazz: A Private Concert

by Dan Bilawsky
March 21, 2014

There was a time when pianist Christian Jacob thought he'd be making his mark as a classical pianist. That's perfectly understandable considering the fact that he was playing piano at age four and studying at the Metz conservatory at age six. By the time he was in college, studying at the Paris Conservatory, he was winning ...

Live in Japan

By Christian Jacob

Label: WilderJazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: Too Close for Comfort; It Never Entered My Mind; Little Eyes; Hana (Spring); Natsuno Omoide (Summer); Akatonbo (Autumn); Yukino Furu Machio (Winter); State of Mind; All or Nothing at All; At Last.

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 ...

Contradictions

By Christian Jacob

Label: WilderJazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Looking Up; Even Mice Dance; Dumb Breaks; Colors; Brazilian Suite; Contradictions; Rachid; 13th; Memories of Paris; Brazilian Suite No. 2; My Bebop Tune.

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

By Christian Jacob

Label: WilderJazz
Released: 2004

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).