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- ↑ Billboard - 13 Aug 1966 - Page 51 "JAZZ SPECIAL MERIT PLAY BACH Jacques Loussier Trio. London LL 3454/5 (M) Exciting interpretations of Bach's Preludes Nos. 1, 2 and 12 in an idiom that straddles the jazz and classical fields. Loussier's free-flowing arrangements ..."
- ↑ Vie musicale - Issues 5-13 1967 - Page 27 "Ce n'est rien cependant à côté du trio Play Bach de Jacques Loussier, Christian Garros et Pierre Michelot. Ceux-ci s'attaquent au texte même de Bach, entrelardent quelques phrases authentiques de soi- disant variations en jazz d'une ..."
- ↑ Encyclopaedia universalis France Universalia: les événements, les hommes, les problèmes en ... 2006- Page 111 "En 1959, avec le pianiste Jacques Loussier et le batteur Christian Garros, il forme le trio Play Bach, qui offre des interprétations swinguées de thèmes de Jean-Sébastien Bach, dénigrées par les puristes mais qui connaîtront une immense ...
- ↑ Billboard - 26 Nov 1966 - Page 48 Vol. 78, No. 48 "BONN — The Bonn government has endorsed the current tour of West Germany by the Jacques Loussier Trio as a "noteworthy contribution to Franco-German cultural understanding." The government is pleased because the' French trio is not ..."
