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Remembering Pianist Beegie Adair: 1937-2022

By Mary Foster Conklin | A Broad Spectrum
February 14, 2022
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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 to distract, comfort and inspire.

Playlist

Jon-Erik Kellso "Coal Cart Blues" from Sweet Fruits Salty Roots (Jazzology) 00:00
Peggy Lee "Just For A Thrill" from The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years (Capitol) 04:13
Catherine Russell "Struttin' With Some Barbeque" from Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village) 07:51
Host speaks 11:04
Beegie Adair "I Wished On the Moon" from By Request (Green Hill) 13:34
Beegie Adair "Honey Come And Dance With Me" from Grover's Hat Project (Adair Music Group) 16:49
Beegie Adair "Black Coffee" from I Love Being Here With You-A Jazz Piano Tribute To Peggy Lee (Green Hill) 20:17
Host speaks 23:37
Works For Me "Salt And Vinegar" from Reach Within (Posi-Tone) 26:11
Sharp Radway (feat. Shenel Johns) "I'm Pulling Through" from Black Woman (A Conversation) (Radway Music) 32:11
Jessica Jones (feat. Ed Reed) "Just As It Is (Ed's Song)" from Continuum (Reva Records) 35:42
Host speaks 40:20
Addison Frei "Nothing Like You" from Time And Again (Next Paradigm Music) 43:12
Bettye LaVette "Romance In the Dark" from Blackbirds (Verve) 47:15
Host speaks 51:17
Deanna Witkowski "Force of Nature" from Force of Nature (MCG Jazz) 54:18
Miho Hazama "Run" from Dancer In Nowhere (Sunnyside) 1:00:00
Giacomo Gates "Exactly Like You" from You (Savant) 1:07:05
Shawnn Monteiro "I Hear Music/How High The Moon" from You Are There (Whaling City Sound) 1:09:35
Host speaks 1:12:53
Jenny Scheinman &Allison Miller "Play Money" from Parlour Game (Royal Potato Family) 1:15:25
Melody Gardot "Niguém Niguém" from Sunset In the Blue (Decca/Verve) 1:20:31
Dee Bell "By Chance (Acaso)" from Love For Sailin' Over the Seas: Then and Now (Self Released) 1:24:06
Host speaks 1:29:22
Jen Allen "Prickly Pear" from Sifting Grace (Next Level) 1:32:07
Wild Blue Herons "Impossible Love" from You & I (Independent) 1:37:45
Host speaks 1:42:20
Jenny Klukken "Supernova" from Color In Motion (Self Released) 1:44:33
Jazzmeia Horn & Her Noble Force "Where We Are" from Dear Love (Empress Legacy) 1:48:29
Host speaks 1:54:12
Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is In the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (PNR) 1:56:42

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