Jacques-Laurent Terrasson (b. November 27, 1966 in Berlin) is a jazz pianist, born in Germany of an American mother and French father.He studied at the Berklee College of Music before playing in Chicago and New York City clubs. He gained increased attention on winning the 1993 Thelonious Monk Piano Competition. He did early work with Betty Carter and in 1997 he worked on Rendezvous with Cassandra Wilson.Terrasson is currently represented by Universal Music France.
If I can manage to pull off a melody in a original way and hopefully make a strong statement, then it's not necessary for me to improvise. Just playing the song, the `head' as we say, can be quite emotionally charged, particularly on a pretty, slow ballad and anything else could be overkill!
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Performed at at The Jazz Standard, in NYC with "TOP" (Terrasson - Okegwo - Parker) from April 25th -30th, 2006 [April 2006]
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Verbotene Liebe
2006
TV Series performer - 1 episode
C'est la vie
2001
performer: "Autumn Leaves" Les Feuilles Mortes
54
1998
performer: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
$500,000
