Air on the G String (Play Bach)

Jacques Loussier Trio · 1959 (year to be confirmed)

Context

In 1959, pianist Jacques Loussier founded a trio with Pierre Michelot and Christian Garros to improvise jazz on pieces by Bach, under the title Play Bach. The Air on the G String is their best-known recording, used for more than thirty years in a British commercial. The trio sold more than seven million records.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Third stream: Cool (Birth of the Cool).

Sources

• EN: Jacques Loussier
• EN: Jacques Loussier Trio

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