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Pierre Michelot
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Keith Jarrett
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Mark O'Connor
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Anne Akiko Meyers
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Fred Hersch
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Friedrich Gulda
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Pekka Kuusisto
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Brad Mehldau
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Oscar Peterson
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Erik Bosgraaf
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Nigel Kennedy
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Julius Baker
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Nemanja Radulović
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Rachel Podger
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Albrecht Mayer
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Stephen Bryant
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Hilary Hahn
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Barry Guy
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Jacques Loussier
French jazz pianist and composer

Jacques Loussier

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French jazz pianist and composer
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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
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Jacques Loussier (26 October 1934 – 5 March 2019) was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the Goldberg Variations. The Jacques Loussier Trio, founded in 1959, played more than 3,000 concerts and sold more than 7 million recordings—mostly in the Bach series. Loussier composed film scores and a number of classical pieces, including a Mass, a ballet, and violin concertos. Loussier's style is described as third stream, a synthesis of jazz and classical music, with an emphasis on improvisation.