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...song from his Grammy-winning album The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, the eager-to-offend rapper fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman is seeking $10 million and the destruction of all Marshall Mathers LP CDs still...
When he left the Paris Conservatory in 1953, fringe-bearded French Pianist-Composer Jacques Loussier, now 27, took a hasty look at the world of classical music-and decided it was no place to earn a living. "I thought," says he, "it was time to tear down the barriers between jazz and classic.'' Loussier knew just the man to help him: Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Loussier figured he could "produce jazz harmonies without disturbing the harmonies of Bach." He rounded up a bass fiddle and some drums, and started noodling his way through the Bach fugues and preludes, "looking for passages that could be swung." He found them-or made them-and the result was an album titled Play Bach (Decca Disques). It sold briskly. Encouraged, Loussier recorded Play Bach, No. 2 and most recently turned to the Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy and Two-Part Inventions as the inspiration for Play Bach...
...limited doses, Loussier-Bach is fascinating. Each number contains a few snatches of unadulterated Bach, and Loussier uses those snatches as an excuse for wheeling off into sweet, cajoling solos or bouncing into a marching, brutish beat...
...strange things are happening: each album in the series is becoming less jazzy and more classical. The day could come when all Loussier's products will be pure Johann Sebastian Bach...
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