Eugen Cicero Trio - Live at the Subway in Koln (1997)

Romanian jazz pianist Eugen Cicero became world famous for his jazz interpretations and arrangements of baroque, classical and romantic works. Even his interpretations of jazz standards were often spiced with quotations from classical works. He is praised for his unparalleled virtuosity, his brilliant keystroke and outstanding creativity. This concert is from a TV broadcast on WDR in Germany, recorded in 1997, the year of his death (December 5, 1997).

Eugen Cicero - piano 

Decebal Badila - bass 

Willi Ketzer - drums

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54:46

WDR broadcast

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Eugen Cicero Trio - Phoenix (1993)

Romanian pianist who blends classical, mainstream pieces.

Eugen Cicero - piano

Pege Aladar - bass

Ringo Hirth -drums

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Eugen Cicero ‎– Klavierspielereien (1969)

Eugen Cicero, of Romanian descent, was born Eugen Ciceu in 1940, started playing piano at age four, gave his first Mozart Concerto with the Symphonic Orchestra of his hometown, Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg), at age six and by the time he was 14 he was widely known as a child prodigy. His parents helped him develop this gift and hone his skills and when he was 11 they sent him to study with Aurelia Cionca, renowned in her native Romania as an excellent pianist who herself was taught by a student of Franz Liszt. Later Cicero studied with Anna Pitis who is said to have “initiated him into the virtuoso traditions personified by Franz Liszt” and later Cicero studied instrumentation and composition at the National Conservatory in Bucharest. In the early 1960s, Cicero was on tour in East Berlin and managed to escape to the West. It was Charly Antolini, the drummer on most of Cicero’s later recordings, that got him a deal with Saba/MPS and the rest, as they say, is history. Many of his recordings are jazz adaptations of classical music.

Eugen Cicero - piano

Peter Witte - bass

Charly Antolini - drums

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