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News: Performance / Tour

New Jazz Venue: Upstairs at Vitello's Studio City

February 14, 2009

Vocalist/promoter AprilWilliams, who has presented a weekly jazz night at the Wine Bistro and Down Beat Entertainment jazz fundraisers for Symphony In The Glen, is adding another venue to her lineup. Upstairs at Vitello’s is a custom-built listening room over Vitello’s Italian Restaurant in Studio City; it is called the “Upstairs Room”. Williams describes it as ...

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News: Recording

Jazz Times Review of "Maynard Ferguson Presents Christian Jacob"

January 6, 2009

Christian Jacob (Concord Jazz) Pianist Christian Jacob is a wonderful player whose crystalline melodies and expansive harmonies mark him as someone to keep an ear on. Although raised in France, it wasn't until arriving in the States that things started happening. There were tenures with Maynard Ferguson and Gary Burton. And now under the aegis “Maynard ...

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Christian Jacob Tours Japan

January 5, 2009

Jacob tinkles the next-generation ivories By TAI KAWABATA Christian Jacob is one of the best-selling foreign jazz pianists in Japan. The New York Times labeled him “phenomenal." Some people call this classically trained Frenchman a genius and regard him as a next-generation leader in the jazz world. Christian Jacob (right) and his band. Jacob, who is ...

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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.

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Article: Album Review

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, ...

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