Oh dear! Last week we lost André Previn and this week Jacques Loussier! How sad. No-one has ever surpassed his recreations of the works of JS Bach and I doubt anyone ever will. Rest in Peace Jacques. I love your work!
In South Africa we have an outstanding concert pianist with similar if not better skills and his name is Charl du Plessis, a Steinway Artist, usually accompanied by his bassist Werner Spies and drummer Hugo.
Vincent Charbonnier, le contrebassiste, a eu un grave AVC peu après l'enregistrement de ce morceau, et aujourd'hui il s'occupe du 38 Riv, l'un des plus vieux clubs de jazz parisiens. C'est toujours un plaisir d'aller là-bas et de lui parler. Car, même s'il ne peut (malheureusement) plus jouer, ce monsieur est d'un commerce extrêmement agréable, évidemment grâce à sa science et son expérience.
j'ai eu le grand plaisir de voir ce génie sur scène à Toulouse accompagné de Pierre Michelot à la contrebasse et Christian Garros à le batterie... c'était il y a un demi-siècle... quand la série de disques "Play Bach" est sortie.... Toujours aussi sublime!!!
Danke Jacques Loussier für die begeisternde Art Bach mit Jazz zu verbinden! Danke für die vielen schönen Konzerte, etliche durfte ich miterleben... Als Jugendlicher das erste 1974, noch viele später... Im Himmel wird Deine Musik auch leben!
Bach's pieces were always improvisational to a degree and he was able to create fugues on the spot by toying with a theme and seeing how far he could go with it. Truly, Bach would have approved of this interpretation and indeed of jazz as a genre.
Cette musique est tellement en phase avec notre Jazz que j'ai pensé que Bach lui même, dans l'intimité de son inspiration et la jouissance de sa création avait certainement eu sous les doigts et dans le coeur tous ces rythmes fabuleux que, bien plus tard, des hommes ont appelé JAZZ!!!!!!
as he did (well, the equivalent, I guess maybe cognac) at his weekly performances at Gottfried Zimmerman’s coffee house in Leipzig with the Collegium Musicum from 1723...
I remember being 15, working my first job at a KFC and watching this video over and over again on my iPod whenever I had a chance. That was 12 years ago and I can still watch this over and over again.
Haha. You are young and a beginner Jorge even if you have been listening for half your short lifetime. I have been listening to him for decades and even spoke to his trio once! Sadly M. Loussier has passed on but his music is here for you and me forever! Blessings and peace
Just look at that cheeky smile creeping across Jacques' face in the first few bars - he can hardly wait to get in there! One of the greats playing the greatest of all time. Thank you both, and see you /hear you up there one day.
Quand le groupe est venu au Brésil á SãoPaulo avec mes parents je suis allée voir leurs incroyables interprétations . Bach un génie de la musique avec Loussier ,Argino,et Charbonniet tous formidables . La musique quand elle est bonne garde sa magie quelle que soit son interprétation..Bravo pour la vidéo
I heard Jacques Loussier for the first time in 1963 when my brother came at house with his first record named "Play Bach" (with Christian Garros and Pierre Michelot, winner of the Charles Cros Academy first prize). For me it was a real shock. I played it again and again, I was so crazy about it. It was also the time of West Side Story and of groups like the Swingle Singers, also "swinging" at Bach, whom I listened all day too.
Forever grateful to Jaques Loussier for introducing to the genius of Bach. Rushed out and bought the LP soon as I heard it on the radio back in I don't when. Still have the original LP together with Vols II and III. Full of hiss and clicks but still magical.
We saw the Jacques Loussier Trio in the Barbican in London in the 1990s, and were lucky enough to get a seat within a few feet of the maestro ... unforgettable. Thank you for bringing us so much pleasure.
Excelente Pianista Bebo Valdez heredó su calidad a su hijo ....el gran Maestro del jazz Chicho Valdez también Pianista, y por supuesto el gran Cantante El Cigala. Gran dueto!!!
Großartig, genial! Jacques Loussier hält die Komposition in Würde und und erkennt die Zusammenhänge zu neuer Musik seit der Entstehung. Keine überzogene Dramatik und eine gewaltige, durch alle Gattungen hindurch technisch brilliante Umsetzung. Was für ein Musiker!
Incredible! This was on the B side of the Play Bach LP. I wore out that record listening to it as a kid. Nice to hear it again after so long. Funny how after 30+ years since last hearing it, I can still remember it note for note in my mind. Bach would have loved this.
Souvenir, souvenir, quand tu nous tiens! Je dédie cette musique à quelqu'un avec je l'ai partagée il y a très longtemps et qui, s'il l'écoute, peut-être se reconnaîtra.
Man fuehlt sich zwischen den Himmel und Erde! Was fuer ein herrliches Gefuehl! Ich liebe Bach und ich liebe Jazz, beides vereint und durch Jacques Loussier gespielt ist ein Genuss!
I had the deepest joy of my life seeing/watching/hearing him in Lausanne a couple yesrs before his death.....thankfully he did not die sooner as Mother and I discovered himon a BBC 4 Friday night when Udo as per usual, was away...MOTHER AND I DELIGHTED FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF...I immediately looked to see where I would have to go to hear him and booked 2 tickets as Udo back.. showed this for a meditation at the brilliant Junior school of Aiglon in 2004 or so....with problems of video!!!! Thank you George and sorry Didier it all made meditation go longer than usual...I wonder ifany child remembers?!?!
Lo asombroso de todas sus interpretaciones es que se ajusta estrictamente a la partitura original de Bach.Fantastico y la audición en un Auditorium , sublime.
I love classical, esp Bach, and this is awesome. The willie nillies that do not like and pretend that it is bad jazz and bad bach, do something to boost your self image please. Thanks mister L and Bach and Jazz, this is awesome, inspiring, cool and beautifull.
Pierre MIchelot était un des plus grands contrebassistes de jazz 1928-2005, que j'ai aussi entendu avec Nougaro évidemment mais aussi avec Dizzie au New Morning
Wow! here's a real musician who knows what music is from the inside out!! I bet he made his own arrangements of course...consumate msucianship, tres impressive!
always loved Loussier and he excelled elsewhere. But. The pace and continuity of Bach in the T&F, is a fantastic ride. There's no rules in music that cannot be broken, and I enjoyed the Loussier ...but you cannot really mess with the gigantic phucking passion of the T&F. This was a bit of fun, that's all.
At that time, thank's to musicians like Jacques Loussier, many people like me discovered Jazz a wonderful way of recycling all kinds of Music. Not that Bach specially needed to be "recycled" in a sense that his music was frozen in the past. But his genious was propelled in another dimension, in modernity. I'm quite sure, after hearing to this cute musical work, that Bach-specialized musicians never played Bach like before.
My high school music teacher allowed me to borrow records..bring back Monday ..Jaques Loussier....Wendy Carlos and Symphonies for the 70s .......actually he also allowed me to take home the double bass...a real walkin bass....across the zebra crossing to my house....strange thing looking back....because I was the so called drummer and 2nd clarinet in the band! Blessed to have had such guidance.
There is only Jacques Loussier who could catapult JSB into the postmodern time !!! Without him, Bach would be forgotten easily, because today we have many musicians, who are as good or better than Bach ! We have music from them, Bach has never imagined.
Are you trolling or do you really believe in what you're saying? Bach was, by most standards, the most prolific of all composers (possibly with the exception of Mozart and Handel, and their music quality pales in comparison with Bach's with the exception of their "highlights") and his music would put any musician of today to shame.
Hi Christian, I can understand your enthusiasm for this adaptation, I like it very much too. However if you repeated your comment to Jacques Loussier, he would probably ask you to leave the room. ;o).... Cheers
If Bach were alive today this is probably how he would play his compositions. Have been a fan of Loussier since the mid '60s. Great.
No, ignorante. Este pianista deforma las composiciones de Bach y además rompe el estilo.
Ich auch!
Oh dear! Last week we lost André Previn and this week Jacques Loussier! How sad. No-one has ever surpassed his recreations of the works of JS Bach and I doubt anyone ever will. Rest in Peace Jacques. I love your work!
And in January 2019 we lost Michel Le Grand!
@@masonjarre6612 A very sad year, indeed.
In South Africa we have an outstanding concert pianist with similar if not better skills and his name is Charl du Plessis, a Steinway Artist, usually accompanied by his bassist Werner Spies and drummer Hugo.
Vincent Charbonnier, le contrebassiste, a eu un grave AVC peu après l'enregistrement de ce morceau, et aujourd'hui il s'occupe du 38 Riv, l'un des plus vieux clubs de jazz parisiens. C'est toujours un plaisir d'aller là-bas et de lui parler. Car, même s'il ne peut (malheureusement) plus jouer, ce monsieur est d'un commerce extrêmement agréable, évidemment grâce à sa science et son expérience.
Tout le monde n'est pas un gros bobo parigot. Vive les SUV ✊ mort à hidalgo la dingo 👎
I love how you can turn an organ piece into a jazz classic
Loussier breathes new life into the old scary "Tocatta and Fugue". Bach would love it. Simply marvelous!
j'ai eu le grand plaisir de voir ce génie sur scène à Toulouse accompagné de Pierre Michelot à la contrebasse et Christian Garros à le batterie... c'était il y a un demi-siècle... quand la série de disques "Play Bach" est sortie....
Toujours aussi sublime!!!
You are blessed !
Danke Jacques Loussier für die begeisternde Art Bach mit Jazz zu verbinden! Danke für die vielen schönen Konzerte, etliche durfte ich miterleben... Als Jugendlicher das erste 1974, noch viele später... Im Himmel wird Deine Musik auch leben!
おほほめ、ありがとうございます 0:12
Bach's pieces were always improvisational to a degree and he was able to create fugues on the spot by toying with a theme and seeing how far he could go with it. Truly, Bach would have approved of this interpretation and indeed of jazz as a genre.
RIP Mr Loussier et merci mille fois pour tout !
Cette musique est tellement en phase avec notre Jazz que j'ai pensé que Bach lui même, dans l'intimité de son inspiration et la jouissance de sa création avait certainement eu sous les doigts et dans le coeur tous ces rythmes fabuleux que, bien plus tard, des hommes ont appelé JAZZ!!!!!!
Jazz + Classical = Perfection .
I think Jazz is another name for Classical!
It's just so well done! Just add new jazzy counterpoint to an already incredible fugue, then turn the swing knob to max.
Loussier ?... Musicien talentueux et simplement génial qui sait s'entourer de non moins géniaux bassiste et batteur.
J'ADORE !!!
Merci mille fois. C’est comme si mon cœur, mes pensées, tout ce qui est moi passait au grand nettoyage avec amour et passion pour Bach.
With this piece I can imagine Bach drinking a martini in a bar.
...and lighting a cigarette; even if you don't smoke.
Cigar* more boss like.
as he did (well, the equivalent, I guess maybe cognac) at his weekly performances at Gottfried Zimmerman’s coffee house in Leipzig with the Collegium Musicum from 1723...
He did go to beer halls and play violin.
Un joyau de la musique, Jean-Sébastien Bach vivrait au XXe siècle ne le déjugerait certainement pas. Bravo Monsieur Loussier
I remember being 15, working my first job at a KFC and watching this video over and over again on my iPod whenever I had a chance. That was 12 years ago and I can still watch this over and over again.
Haha. You are young and a beginner Jorge even if you have been listening for half your short lifetime. I have been listening to him for decades and even spoke to his trio once!
Sadly M. Loussier has passed on but his music is here for you and me forever!
Blessings and peace
Just look at that cheeky smile creeping across Jacques' face in the first few bars - he can hardly wait to get in there! One of the greats playing the greatest of all time. Thank you both, and see you /hear you up there one day.
There will be a big crowd of us if we make it up there and not down there but surely all fans deserve to go up!
Quand le groupe est venu au Brésil á SãoPaulo avec mes parents je suis allée voir leurs incroyables interprétations . Bach un génie de la musique avec Loussier ,Argino,et Charbonniet tous formidables .
La musique quand elle est bonne garde sa magie quelle que soit son interprétation..Bravo pour la vidéo
On ne peut pas exister sans plaisir avec Jacques Loussier, même une seconde et c’est difficile d’avoir du chagrin longtemps.. ainsi va l’existence
Jacques Loussier must be giving concerts in Heaven. Gran Maestro!!
Yes and Edith Schaeffer is dancing..
I heard Jacques Loussier for the first time in 1963 when my brother came at house with his first record named "Play Bach" (with Christian Garros and Pierre Michelot, winner of the Charles Cros Academy first prize). For me it was a real shock. I played it again and again, I was so crazy about it. It was also the time of West Side Story and of groups like the Swingle Singers, also "swinging" at Bach, whom I listened all day too.
Découvert en 1968 , j'adore cette interprétation magique par Jacques LOUSSIER de J.S. BACH .
J'ai assisté il y a 50 ans à un concert et j'ai adoré et j'avais tous ces disques patriclkbahuet@hotmail.com
Forever grateful to Jaques Loussier for introducing to the genius of Bach. Rushed out and bought the LP soon as I heard it on the radio back in I don't when. Still have the original LP together with Vols II and III. Full of hiss and clicks but still magical.
We saw the Jacques Loussier Trio in the Barbican in London in the 1990s, and were lucky enough to get a seat within a few feet of the maestro ... unforgettable. Thank you for bringing us so much pleasure.
How can you dare to treat Bach like this way??? So great! Greatest Guy!!!
Excelente Pianista Bebo Valdez heredó su calidad a su hijo ....el gran Maestro del jazz Chicho Valdez también Pianista, y por supuesto el gran Cantante El Cigala. Gran dueto!!!
Saw him at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues festival three days ago!
FANTASTIC show! That trio is a unit, not a band. Perfect music
The resurrection of Bach.... what an amazing masterpiece !
Так прекрасно, когда человек из гениального произведения делает другое, не менее гениальное произведение!
Спасибо, Жак!
The genius of Bach! Love the 5 string stand up bass.
Großartig, genial! Jacques Loussier hält die Komposition in Würde und und erkennt die Zusammenhänge zu neuer Musik seit der Entstehung. Keine überzogene Dramatik und eine gewaltige, durch alle Gattungen hindurch technisch brilliante Umsetzung. Was für ein Musiker!
Rest In Peace. Thanks for the interpretations, always interesting.
This is my favorite rendition of this piece. So perfectly done in my opinion.
The great JS would be very comfortable with this interpretation, I'd have thought.
I first heard this in around 1973 - still gives me goosebumps - fabulous
Incredible! This was on the B side of the Play Bach LP. I wore out that record listening to it as a kid. Nice to hear it again after so long. Funny how after 30+ years since last hearing it, I can still remember it note for note in my mind. Bach would have loved this.
Jacques Loussier es magnifico
merci beaucoup,Jacques et trio pour partager la musique de Bach avec NOUS et ton style JAZZ...
ami JUAN MACARIO de Mexique.
Muy muy bueno. Con qué respeto hacia Bach se puede hacer una obra desacartonada. Exelente el contrabajista
Jazz trios are just the best. . . I love this stuff
Mr loussier est décédé le 6 3 2019 un génie de la musique condoléances à sa famille
Souvenir, souvenir, quand tu nous tiens! Je dédie cette musique à quelqu'un avec je l'ai partagée il y a très longtemps et qui, s'il l'écoute, peut-être se reconnaîtra.
What a talent!
Excelent version. Loussier is unique
Man fuehlt sich zwischen den Himmel und Erde! Was fuer ein herrliches
Gefuehl! Ich liebe Bach und ich liebe
Jazz, beides vereint und durch Jacques
Loussier gespielt ist ein Genuss!
a great baroque and jazz virtuoso mr. Louissier I like the arrengement
Bach AND Loussier are timeless modern. Great.
I had the deepest joy of my life seeing/watching/hearing him in Lausanne a couple yesrs before his death.....thankfully he did not die sooner as Mother and I discovered himon a BBC 4 Friday night when Udo as per usual, was away...MOTHER AND I DELIGHTED FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF...I immediately looked to see where I would have to go to hear him and booked 2 tickets as Udo back.. showed this for a meditation at the brilliant Junior school of Aiglon in 2004 or so....with problems of video!!!! Thank you George and sorry Didier it all made meditation go longer than usual...I wonder ifany child remembers?!?!
JACQUES LOUSSIER MARAVILLOSO
Otra dimensión de la música de Bach y la versatilidad del Jazz.
Wonderful version! What a cool way to combine two styles.
Bach is gravity and Joy j loussier has This fabulous talent....jsb rejoices in heaven....we hope a series of concert...come on jacques!!!!!
Masterful! A joy to hear.
Stimmt, ich bin deiner Meinung / True, i agree with you
2 genios se encuentran, Bach y Jacques
Loussier! Fantastico!
Amazing performance! It is truly a great work done on blending classical and jazz.
Right... this is probably how the "meister" himself would arrange it if he would be with us at this day and age. Brilliant, my number one.
Lo asombroso de todas sus interpretaciones es que se ajusta estrictamente a la partitura original de Bach.Fantastico y la audición en un Auditorium , sublime.
I love classical, esp Bach, and this is awesome. The willie nillies that do not like and pretend that it is bad jazz and bad bach, do something to boost your self image please. Thanks mister L and Bach and Jazz, this is awesome, inspiring, cool and beautifull.
Beauty times everybody on earth ... Lets not forget Andre and Vincent please , thank you all beautiful trio .
Wounderful version, enjoyed so much
very jazztastic interpretation
Wonderful I love this piece :) His playing is just phenomenal :)
A true Performance of wonderful work!
Merci pour cette découverte; quel apport à cette œuvre... oui, Bach au bar
this is criminally good
Pierre MIchelot était un des plus grands contrebassistes de jazz 1928-2005, que j'ai aussi entendu avec Nougaro évidemment mais aussi avec Dizzie au New Morning
I'm forever grateful to JL. It was he who first introduced me to the works of Bach, the greatest composer who's ever lived (or ever will).
aardvaarkisgood I think JL would be delighted to read your comment.
Infinitas Gracias por compartir este gran tesoro. Yo tengo la fortuna de tenerlo en Longplay.
Un abrazo fuerte.
I love the little jazz episodes where Loussier seems to erupt with delirious abandon while still maintaining complete and masterful control.
Really love the idea, but more I love the execution. Omg.
This is excellent, quality stuff. Fantastic.
Grandiosa Composición siempre un enorme placer escuchar al Gran Maestro Jacques Loussier
I have heard this song so many times, but this is the first time I SEE them play . Thanks coltrane1966 for posting.
Brilliant honouring of Bach!
masterpiece.
Wow! here's a real musician who knows what music is from the inside out!! I bet he made his own arrangements of course...consumate msucianship, tres impressive!
love this cool jazzy-fugal composition!
Only try this if you can play the original really well!!
Brilliant performance and arrangement!
Unique!!! SuperB!!!
Got this from the commentator below...Alan !!!
Thanks for sharing :)))
always loved Loussier and he excelled elsewhere. But. The pace and continuity of Bach in the T&F, is a fantastic ride. There's no rules in music that cannot be broken, and I enjoyed the Loussier ...but you cannot really mess with the gigantic phucking passion of the T&F. This was a bit of fun, that's all.
At that time, thank's to musicians like Jacques Loussier, many people like me discovered Jazz a wonderful way of recycling all kinds of Music. Not that Bach specially needed to be "recycled" in a sense that his music was frozen in the past. But his genious was propelled in another dimension, in modernity. I'm quite sure, after hearing to this cute musical work, that Bach-specialized musicians never played Bach like before.
My high school music teacher allowed me to borrow records..bring back Monday ..Jaques Loussier....Wendy Carlos and Symphonies for the 70s .......actually he also allowed me to take home the double bass...a real walkin bass....across the zebra crossing to my house....strange thing looking back....because I was the so called drummer and 2nd clarinet in the band! Blessed to have had such guidance.
Great performance!
Thank you!
genial!!!!espectacular!!!! sensacional!!!! sublime!!!!
great music & trio. merci beaucoup ...
There is only Jacques Loussier who could catapult JSB into the postmodern time !!! Without him, Bach would be forgotten easily, because today we have many musicians, who are as good or better than Bach ! We have music from them, Bach has never imagined.
Are you trolling or do you really believe in what you're saying? Bach was, by most standards, the most prolific of all composers (possibly with the exception of Mozart and Handel, and their music quality pales in comparison with Bach's with the exception of their "highlights") and his music would put any musician of today to shame.
Hi Christian, I can understand your enthusiasm for this adaptation, I like it very much too. However if you repeated your comment to Jacques Loussier, he would probably ask you to leave the room. ;o).... Cheers
this is fantastic exemplary my musical director told me about this only last night for the first time the skill is beyond belief.
A jazzy blue lobster brought me here
he's just like a singer!!! i couldn't belive when i heard him... it's a genius!!! i simply love it!!!
such a fantastic remix
They're gone, but their work will last forever. Thank you for uploading!
Um génio.Não haverá outro igual tão cedo.Já o ouço há mais de 30 anos .
Тема , Великая тема, сделана превосходно ! Наслаждаюсь уже много - много лет
Por siempre !!!!!! llenos de vida y belleza ,sus interpretaciones alegran mis días !!
Really SUPERB
The beginning is so much more powerful on the organ, but the fugue was brilliant!
Great interpretation, excellent performance.
MAGNIFICANT JACQUES TY
Great. Beautiful work
great video!! I have the cd, but it's cool to see them play!