Jazz / Christmas, Holiday
Beegie Adair - Piano
Andy Norris Graphic Design, Design
Beth Odle Photography
Carol Frazier Stylist
Chris Brown Drums
Greg Howard Executive Producer
Jack Jezzro Producer
Roger Spencer Bass
A seasonal follow up to her best selling titles The Frank Sinatra Collection and The Nat King Cole Collection, Beegie Adair presents her very first collection of holiday favorites. From traditional Christmas standards to appropriate, seasonally themed jazz standards, The Beegie Adair Trio once again brings a special mixture of class and sass to the table. This one is destined to become an instant classic.
Nashville session veteran Beegie Adair turns in a pleasant, tasteful set of jazz-trio arrangements of holiday standards here, accompanied by bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown. The trio plays the melodies straight, then Adair takes off on appropriate variations. There's nothing earth-shaking here, but the playing is effective, and the result is a worthy addition to the Christmas music catalog. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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 |
