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Radio & Podcasts

New Live Recording From Guitarist Emily Remler, Singles By Ute Lemper, Marianne Solivan, Holiday Fare From George Kahn, Penni Layne & More

Read "New Live Recording From Guitarist Emily Remler, Singles By Ute Lemper, Marianne Solivan, Holiday Fare From George Kahn, Penni Layne & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes holiday recordings from George Kahn, Penni Layne, a collection of holiday vintage jazz from Concord Records, a new concert recording from Emily Remler, singles from Ute Lemper and Marianne Solivan, with birthday shoutouts to Beegie Adair, Joe Williams, Jihee Heo, Sheila E., Diane Schuur and Amanda Tosoff, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke, inspire and remind the world ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Remembering Pianist Beegie Adair: 1937-2022

Read "Remembering Pianist Beegie Adair: 1937-2022" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


The broadcast includes new releases from pianists Sharp Radway, Addison Frei, vocalists Giacomo Gates, Shawnn Monteiro and Wild Blue Herons, with birthday shoutouts to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Bettye LaVette, Ed Reed, Melody Gardot, Jen Allen plus a special remembrance for pianist Beegie Adair, a jazz master in the country capital of Nashville for over sixty years . Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so they can continue ...

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Album Review

Beegie Adair: Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio

Read "Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The true beauty of any Beegie Adair recording is that it will be straight down the middle mainstream jazz. It is money in the bank. Adair's 50-year career has found her leading her jazz trio, writing advertising jingles and accompanying vocalists, as she does on the present Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio. Ramey, a native of the midwest, take a predictably conservative approach to the Great American Songbook. Her doing so does us the favor of reminding us ...

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Album Review

Beegie Adair: An Affair To Remember: Romantic Movie Songs Of The 1950's

Read "An Affair To Remember: Romantic Movie Songs Of The 1950's" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


I really enjoyed Beegie Adair's Centennial Tribute to Richard Rodgers in 2002. On that album, her piano trio made the most of some of the best songs written during the golden age of the 1930s and '40s.

Her latest venture is also a most worthy effort to recall the grandeur of movie themes from the '50s (and how far we have come since then in today's cinematic environment). During those days, even a smaller film was expected to ...

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Album Review

Beegie Adair: An Affair to Remember

Read "An Affair to Remember" reviewed by Jim Santella


With the Jeff Steinberg Orchestra accompanying her, pianist Beegie Adair remembers the love stories that came to us through the films of the 1950s. She portrays each theme as it was done in the original score, with lush strings and an emphasis on its recurring melody. A gentle spirit guides her through each warm melody effortlessly. The pianist's flowing keyboard motion swells and ebbs with each theme. They're memorable songs.

As Ellen Menking's oboe solo introduces “A Certain ...

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Album Review

Beegie Adair: I'll Take Romance

Read "I'll Take Romance" reviewed by Jack Bowers


More late-evening mood music than jazz, I’ll Take Romance, the seventh album on the Green Hill label by Beegie Adair, showcases her warm piano stylings with a string-laden orchestra conducted by Jeff Steinberg. As Adair is based in Nashville, TN, hers may be a new name to many readers and / or listeners. Suffice to say that she’s an accomplished technician who can swing when the occasion demands, which in this instance is all too seldom (she is able to ...

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Album Review

Beegie Adair Trio: Centennial Composers Collection

Read "Centennial Composers Collection" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A Superb Introduction to the Great American Song Book...

My first brush with what are commonly called “standards" in jazz parlance came when I devoured Linda Ronstadt’s Round Midnight with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. This was a collection of “jazz" vocals that was unthreatening, easily digested, and readily understood. Further, Ronstadt’s collection introduced the standards, their lyrics and melodies to my 40-something generation when that generation could not hear Ella, Billie, Sarah, or Betty.

Now, there is available an exceptional ...


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