Beegie Adair - Jazz Piano Christmas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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- Genre: Jazz
- Description: 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. Kentucky born and raised, Adair lives and records in Nashville â€Inch something of a surprise to people who associate the city solely with country music. In fact Nashville lives up to it's Music City nickname by hosting a vibrant jazz scene, in which she has been a leading light for decades. A sought-after studio musician in her early days there, Adair accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash and also worked with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee. Her gu
- Artist: Beegie Adair
- Title: Jazz Piano Christmas
- Format: CD
- Label: Green Hill Prod.
- Release Date: 10/06/2009
- Genre: Jazz
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- Product Name: Beegie Adair - Jazz Piano Christmas - COMPACT DISCS
- UPC: 792755558829
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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. Kentucky born and raised, Adair lives and records in Nashville â€Inch something of a surprise to people who associate the city solely with country music. In fact Nashville lives up to it's Music City nickname by hosting a vibrant jazz scene, in which she has been a leading light for decades. A sought-after studio musician in her early days there, Adair accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash and also worked with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee. Her gu
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