Cicero

Born in Romania in 1940, Eugen Cicero performed his first piano concert with a symphony orchestra at the age of six. Abandoning his career as classical concert pianist, Cicero pursued his passion of integrating jazz rhythms, harmonies and improvisation with the music of the classical masters.

While Eugen gained fame as a piano virtuoso in the 1960s and performed with singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Shirley Bassey, Roger made the German-speaking swing socially acceptable and delighted his fans with a mixture of pop, jazz and swing, seasoned with cheeky and amusing lyrics.

Romanian Eugen Cicero performed his first piano concert with a symphony orchestra at the age of six. His first SABA/MPS album, Rokoko Jazz sold over a million copies.

"The Roger Cicero Jazz Experience" war für Roger Cicero und seine Bandkollegen, Matthias Meusel am Schlagzeug, Hervé Jeanne am Bass und Maik Schott am Klavier und den Keyboards eine wahre Herzensangelegenheit, wie Roger Cicero in einem Interview mit "Jazzthing" beschrieb: "Es gibt nichts, das so vielfältig ist und trotzdem nur mit vier kleinen Buchstaben umschrieben wird wie der Jazz. Wir nehmen uns die Freiheit, neue Wege mit unseren Arrangements zu beschreiten. Nichts eignet sich besser dazu als das seit jeher freiheitliche Selbstverständnis des Jazz mit seinen großen narrativen Möglichkeiten."

Cicero’s Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest in Cicero’s political thought. Its nine original essays by a multidisciplinary group of distinguished international scholars manifest close study of Cicero’s philosophical writings and great appreciation for him as a creative thinker, one from whom we can continue to learn.

This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents is acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the court system of the Late Roman Republic and to explore in detail the strategies available to Roman advocates to win the votes of jurors…