Jazz
Beegie Adair Liner Notes, Piano
Brendan Harkin Mixing, Engineer
Chris Brown Drums
Jack Jezzro Producer
Lee Wright Graphic Design
Mike Haynes Mastering
Roger Spencer Bass
Jazz pianist, Beegie Adair, plays timeless pop hits of the 1950's.
Beegie Adair
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Standards
Beegie 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 State University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 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 (1969-71). She and her husband also started a jingle company to write music for commercials. In 1982, she and saxophonist Denis Solee formed the Adair-Solee Quartet, which evolved into the Be-Bop Co-Op, a jazz sextet. She made her first album under her own name, Escape to New York, with a rhythm section consisting of Bob Cranshaw and Gregory Hutchinson. But her subsequent albums, The Frank Sinatra Collection, The Nat King Cole Collection, and Jazz Piano Christmas, were made with bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown.
--- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
