Beegie Adair
Once in a while a musician comes along with impeccable technique, deep understanding of the jazz repertoire, an innate tendency to swing and the rare ability to communicate the heart and soul of a tune to listeners. That musician is Beegie Adair.
About her music Adair says, “Falling in love with jazz is like falling in love with a person, except with jazz you never get over it.” About Beegie (say B-G) Adair, what do others say?
Jazz great Helen Merrill salutes her “inventive jazz sense, her wonderful sense of time and improvised melody.”
Christopher Louden of Jazz Times magazine says Adair is “an accomplished artist with a delicate touch.”
The Los Angeles Times calls her music “Elegant.”
Entertainment News writes, “Beegie Adair is one of the finest piano players in the world.”
Intrigued? So are thousands of jazz fans, who agree with critics about Adair’s sophisticated and listenable jazz performances, and who have made her recordings among the biggest sellers in the jazz world.
Citing George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner among her influences, Adair has recorded 24 CDs, ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads. Her 6-CD Centennial Composers Collection of tunes by Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Ellington, Carmichael and Berlin became an instant collectible classic when it was released in 2002.
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- Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio by C. Michael Bailey
- An Affair To Remember: Romantic Movie Songs Of The 1950's by Michael P. Gladstone
- An Affair to Remember by Jim Santella
- I'll Take Romance by Jack Bowers
- Centennial Composers Collection by C. Michael Bailey
- I'll Take Romance by Jim Santella
- Dream Dancing - Songs of Cole Porter by Dave Nathan
- Dream Dancing by AAJ Staff
- Jazz Piano Christmas by Jim Santella
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January 13, 2011
Beegie Adair makes rare NYC appearance at Birdland with vocalist Monica...
October 15, 2002
Pianist Beegie Adair Releases Centennial Composers 6-CD Box Set on...