Jacky Terrasson

Jacky Terrasson
Jacky Terrasson, Dortmund, 2010
Background information
Birth name	Jacques-Laurent Terrasson
Born	(1965-11-27) November 27, 1965 Berlin, Germany
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1990s–present
Labels	Blue Note, Impulse!

Jacques-Laurent Terrasson (born November 27, 1965) is a jazz pianist born in Berlin, Germany, to an African-American mother and French father.

Terrasson studied at the Berklee College of Music before playing at clubs in Chicago and New York City. He gained increased attention after winning the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition in 1993. He worked with Betty Carter and in 1997 with Cassandra Wilson on his album Rendezvous.

Discography

• Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note, 1994)^[1]
• Reach (Blue Note, 1996)^[2]
• Rendezvous (Blue Note, 1997)^[3]
• Alive (Blue Note, 1998)
• What It Is (Blue Note, 1999) (a.k.a. Where It's At)^[4]
• A Paris... (Blue Note, 2001)^[5]
• Moon & Sand (Jazz Aux Ramparts, 2001)^[6]
• Lover Man (Venus, 2002)^[7]
• Smile (Blue Note, 2002)^[8]
• Into the Blue (Blue Note, 2003)^[9]
• Close to You (HighNote/ACT 2005)^[10]
• Mirror (Blue Note, 2007)^[11]
• Push (Concord, 2010)^[12]
• Gouache (Universal, 2012)^[13]
• Take This (Impulse!, 2015)^[14]
• Mother (Impulse!, 2016)^[15]

With Cindy Blackman

• Telepathy (Muse, 1992 [1994])

With Wallace Roney

• Seth Air (Muse, 1991)

References

External links

• Official website
• All Music