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Beegie Adair Community Center Dedication, merkitsijänä Beegie Adair
The City Council of Cave City honored native Beegie Adair, a member of WKU’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni, by dedicating the town’s community center in her name. The dedication took place at 11:30 a.m. May 11 at 105 Duke St. in Cave City. Born Bobbe Gorin Long, Adair is fondly remembered in southcentral Kentucky as the daughter of A.G. and Bobbe Long, and granddaughter of Grover and Sallie Long, all longtime Cave City residents. Adair began taking piano lessons at age 5. She continued to study piano throughout college, earning a B.S. in Music Education at WKU. 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). 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. Adair has appeared on more than 100 CDs (34 of which are studio recordings with her trio), ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads. Her 6-CD Centennial Composers Collection became an instant collectible classic upon its release. Her latest album, The Real Thing, has spent over 12 weeks in the Top 20 on the JazzWeek charts. She and her trio continue to play in jazz clubs and festivals around the world and was the top selling jazz artist in Japan in 2010. She was a 2004 inductee into the Cave City Hall of Fame and a 2002 inductee into the WKU Music Department’s Wall of Fame. Adair lives in Franklin, Tenn., with her husband, Billy who is an associate professor of jazz studies at the Blair School in Vanderbilt University. She is an Advisory Board & Faculty member of the Nashville Jazz Workshop and performs regularly in Nashville. — paikassa Cave City, Amerikan yhdysvallat. (lähellä paikkaa Cave City, Amerikan yhdysvallat)
The City Council of Cave City honored native Beegie Adair, a member of WKU’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni, by dedicating the town’s community center in her name. The dedication took place at 11:30 a.m. May 11 at 105 Duke St. in Cave City. Born Bobbe Gorin Long, Adair is fondly remembered in southcentral Kentucky as the daughter of A.G. and Bobbe Long, and granddaughter of Grover and Sallie Long, all longtime Cave City residents. Adair began taking piano lessons at age 5. She continued to study piano throughout college, earning a B.S. in Music Education at WKU. 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). 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. Adair has appeared on more than 100 CDs (34 of which are studio recordings with her trio), ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads. Her 6-CD Centennial Composers Collection became an instant collectible classic upon its release. Her latest album, The Real Thing, has spent over 12 weeks in the Top 20 on the JazzWeek charts. She and her trio continue to play in jazz clubs and festivals around the world and was the top selling jazz artist in Japan in 2010. She was a 2004 inductee into the Cave City Hall of Fame and a 2002 inductee into the WKU Music Department’s Wall of Fame. Adair lives in Franklin, Tenn., with her husband, Billy who is an associate professor of jazz studies at the Blair School in Vanderbilt University. She is an Advisory Board & Faculty member of the Nashville Jazz Workshop and performs regularly in Nashville. — paikassa Cave City, Amerikan yhdysvallat. (lähellä paikkaa Cave City, Amerikan yhdysvallat)
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