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John Beasley

Born: October 10

Double GRAMMY® Award winning and Emmy nominee, John Beasley is a versatile pianist, composer, arranger who began his career in his 20s backing jazz icons Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. Since then, Beasley has performed with a wide range of artists, including Dianne Reeves, Ivan Lins, John Patitucci, Chaka Khan, Christian McBride, Carly Simon, to name a few. He was music director for international tours with Steely Dan, AR Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) and Queen Latifah and co-MD for Chucho Valdes La Creation tour.

As a recording artist Beasley has over a dozen albums and has earned 11 GRAMMY nominations. His latest album is a reimagination of Charlie Parker music “Bird Lives” with SWR Big Band and strings, which brought another GRAMMY win with three 2022 GRAMMY nominations. Beasley’s solo project, MONK’estra, is a trilogy of albums which earned six consecutive GRAMMY nominations and a win. He also earned his first Latin Grammy nomination for a fado-jazz album “Close to Me” with Portuguese singer Maria Mendes and the Metropole Orkest.