Beegie Adair - Beegie Adair: The Collection (2021)
Artist: Beegie Adair
Title: Beegie Adair: The Collection
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Green Hill Productions
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 3:07:33
Total Size: 0.98 GB / 435 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Beegie Adair: The Collection
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Green Hill Productions
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 3:07:33
Total Size: 0.98 GB / 435 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. L-O-V-E
02. Let's Get Lost
03. Strangers In The Night
04. Route 66
05. What's New
06. Taking A Chance On Love
07. Unforgettable
08. Can't Help Loving
09. What A Difference A Day Makes
10. They Didn't Believe Me
11. 'S Wonderful
12. Always On My Mind
13. I Only Have Eyes For You
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. Fever
16. You Make Me Feel So Young
17. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
18. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
19. Satin Doll
20. Chicago
21. Misty
22. The Best Is Yet To Come
23. The Girl From Ipanema
24. Again
25. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
26. Black Coffee
27. I've Got You Under My Skin
28. Nice 'N Easy
29. I've Got A Crush On You
30. The Lady Is A Tramp
31. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
32. He's A Tramp
33. Cheek To Cheek
34. They Can't Take That Away From Me
35. Have You Met Miss Jones
36. Caravan
37. All The Things You Are
38. Georgia On My Mind
39. Fly Me To The Moon
40. Stardust
41. Blue Skies
42. In A Sentimental Mood
43. Love Walked In
44. Here There And Everywhere
45. The Way You Look Tonight
46. The Nearness Of You
47. Love Letters
48. The Song Is You
49. Easy To Love
50. Smile
Beegie Adair is a prolific, award-winning jazz pianist and arranger known for her interpretations of jazz and popular standards and show tunes. She has sold over two million recordings globally. Her melodic, fleet-fingered style reflects the sounds of her major influences, including George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, and Erroll Garner.
Adair grew up in Cave City, Kentucky, where she began taking piano lessons at age five. She continued to study piano throughout college, earning a B.S. in music education at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. During and after college, she played in jazz bands, and spent three years teaching music to children before moving to Nashville, where she became a session musician, working at WSM-TV and on The Johnny Cash Show (1969-1971). She and her husband also started a jingle company to write music for commercials.
Escape to New YorkIn 1982, she and saxophonist Denis Solee formed the Adair-Solee Quartet, which evolved into the Be-Bop Co-Op, a jazz sextet. In 1998, she released Escape to New York, her first trio-led date with a rhythm section consisting of Bob Cranshaw and Gregory Hutchinson. She signed to the fledgling Hillsboro label for 2001's Dream Dancing: The Songs of Cole Porter; bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown joined her. Dream Dancing was the first of dozens of themed albums devoted to songwriters and singers. In 2002, she was named a Steinway Artist.
Yesterday: A Solo Piano Tribute to the Music of the BeatlesMost of Adair's recordings have been issued by the independent jazz label Green Hill Productions. They include 2008's Yesterday: A Solo Piano Tribute to the Music of the Beatles, 2010's Swingin' with Sinatra, and 2012's The Real Thing (which spent 20 weeks on the jazz charts and was chosen one of the year's best 100 jazz albums). In 2015, her trio collaborated with saxophonist Don Aliquo on Too Marvelous for Words.
Some Enchanted EveningSince 2011, Adair and her trio have played Birdland in New York. While visiting, they have often collaborated with vocalist Monica Ramey. In the spring of 2016, that partnership bore fruit on the album Some Enchanted Evening. The following year saw Adair issue the compilation By Request, which featured her most requested and personal favorites. ~ William Ruhlmann
Adair grew up in Cave City, Kentucky, where she began taking piano lessons at age five. She continued to study piano throughout college, earning a B.S. in music education at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. During and after college, she played in jazz bands, and spent three years teaching music to children before moving to Nashville, where she became a session musician, working at WSM-TV and on The Johnny Cash Show (1969-1971). She and her husband also started a jingle company to write music for commercials.
Escape to New YorkIn 1982, she and saxophonist Denis Solee formed the Adair-Solee Quartet, which evolved into the Be-Bop Co-Op, a jazz sextet. In 1998, she released Escape to New York, her first trio-led date with a rhythm section consisting of Bob Cranshaw and Gregory Hutchinson. She signed to the fledgling Hillsboro label for 2001's Dream Dancing: The Songs of Cole Porter; bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown joined her. Dream Dancing was the first of dozens of themed albums devoted to songwriters and singers. In 2002, she was named a Steinway Artist.
Yesterday: A Solo Piano Tribute to the Music of the BeatlesMost of Adair's recordings have been issued by the independent jazz label Green Hill Productions. They include 2008's Yesterday: A Solo Piano Tribute to the Music of the Beatles, 2010's Swingin' with Sinatra, and 2012's The Real Thing (which spent 20 weeks on the jazz charts and was chosen one of the year's best 100 jazz albums). In 2015, her trio collaborated with saxophonist Don Aliquo on Too Marvelous for Words.
Some Enchanted EveningSince 2011, Adair and her trio have played Birdland in New York. While visiting, they have often collaborated with vocalist Monica Ramey. In the spring of 2016, that partnership bore fruit on the album Some Enchanted Evening. The following year saw Adair issue the compilation By Request, which featured her most requested and personal favorites. ~ William Ruhlmann
