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Christian Jacob: Beautiful Jazz: A Private Concert

Read "Beautiful Jazz: A Private Concert" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

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 awards and prepping for piano competitions. Jacob was following the prescribed course that classical piano hopefuls typically follow, but his destiny ...

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The Christian Jacob Trio: Live in Japan

Read "Live in Japan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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 gently as a soft summer rain and swing emphatically at the drop of a hi-hat, brings all his impressive assets to bear in a ...

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The Christian Jacob Trio: Contradictions

Read "Contradictions" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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, Michel Petrucciani, whose life was ended far too soon by the effects of osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare bone disease that stunted his physical growth ...

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The Christian Jacob Trio: Styne & Mine

Read "Styne & Mine" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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 I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" and “I Fall in Love Too Easily," introduces Christian as “one of the greatest living jazz pianists," ...