ABSTRACT
In the early 1980s, living in a hidden valley so deep in the countryside of Provence that there was virtually no sound of twentieth-century life apart from the odd tractor or water pump, Jacques Loussier set his mind to electronic composition and running a recording studio. For the previous twenty years, he had been one of the most popular jazz pianists in Europe. Although he was barely known outside Europe and Japan he was playing over one hundred and fifty sold-out concerts a year at the likes of the Salle Pleyel in Paris. What changed everything for Loussier was the Bach tercentenary in 1985. Invited to form a trio to celebrate the composer with whom he was so closely identified, Loussier found his new companions, bassist Vincent Charbonnier and drummer Andre Arpino so convivial, and their music such a quantum leap forward from his old trio, that he went back on the road.
