Jacob Elijah Aginsky started playing the piano at five years old. By the time he was eleven, he showed enough talent to be admitted into the San Francisco Conservatory. Within a few years, however, he had quit in search of a good jazz teacher. Since then he has studied with notables Randy Craig, Mark Levine, Herbie Hancock and Eddie Marshall, as well as going through the University of California at Santa Cruz and San Francisco State's Music Performance program.

Based primarily in the Bay Area, Jacob first toured Europe in the summer of 1995 with his Pacific Blue Jazz Quintet to promote sales for the independently produced album, "Schmoozin'" (APCD001). In the fall of the same year, he was invited to tour solo through Japan as a harlem-stride style pianist. Since his return in 1996, Jacob Elijah has produced two new jazz recordings entitled ". . . And Some" (NR0029) and "Travelogue" (NR0030) distributed under the Noir Records label, and most recently "Live, in solo concert" (APCD006) recorded in 2001.

In recent years, Jacob has become more involved with the DJ community, exploring the boundaries between the contemporary rhythms of trip-hop, jungle and drum-and-bass and the spontaneity and improvisation of jazz. He has recorded with some of the finest turntablists, including DJ Quest and Cut Chemist. Jacob Elijah has also been working alongside drummer Eric Garland on their new project Subnautic, the wonderfully talented vocalist Gretchen Lieberum on several albums, and DJAiko in BeatDestruct.