Richie Beirach
Richie
Beirach
PIANIST | COMPOSER | EDUCATOR | AUTHOR
EDUCATOR | AUTHOR
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"The World Within is a highly-engaging experience for a listener, well worth anyone’s hour. It is already one of the most enjoyable recordings of the year."
By Charlie Rees, London Jazz News
"The World Within is a highly-engaging experience for a listener, well worth anyone’s hour. It is already one of the most enjoyable recordings of the year."
By Charlie Rees, London Jazz News
"Throughout, the duo show how they can take a kernel of a musical idea and develop and burnish it into a spontaneously conceived work that grows and evolves with organic logic."
By Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise
"Truly a family affair with two brothers, Gregor, Veit and “Uncle” Richie!! This music transverses 20th century and jazz.
Listening to the variety of idioms the performances are both intimate and soulful, performed by musicians who know the history.” by Dave Liebman
"The World Within is a highly-engaging experience for a listener, well worth anyone’s hour. It is already one of the most enjoyable recordings of the year."
By Charlie Rees, London Jazz News
"The World Within is a highly-engaging experience for a listener, well worth anyone’s hour. It is already one of the most enjoyable recordings of the year."
By Charlie Rees, London Jazz News
"Throughout, the duo show how they can take a kernel of a musical idea and develop and burnish it into a spontaneously conceived work that grows and evolves with organic logic."
By Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise
"Truly a family affair with two brothers, Gregor, Veit and “Uncle” Richie!! This music transverses 20th century and jazz.
Listening to the variety of idioms the performances are both intimate and soulful, performed by musicians who know the history.” by Dave Liebman
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"Teaching and Learning Jazz is the most important book on jazz education I have ever read
...and possibly ever written!"
By Justin DiCioccio, Associate Dean/Chair Emeritus Jazz Arts Program Manhattan School of Music
"Richie lays out such a well-thought-out process regarding the way you can develop as a musician just by utilizing your own talents and assembled knowledge. Pay careful attention - this man knows what he is talking about."
By Randy Brecker
History and profiles of the most influential jazz pianists of the past 100 years as told by Richie:
- Art Tatum
- Bid Powell
- Thelonious Monk
- Bill Evans
- Paul Bley
- Herbie Hancock
- McCoy Tyner
- Chick Corea
- Keith Jarrett
- Cecil Taylor
"Using three iconic jazz recordings (and their artists), Richie & Michael Lake explain how these recordings reach people well beyond the horizons of jazz.
Thanks to Richie and Michael for reminding us what it means to create true art."
- Rich DeRosa, Director of Jazz Composition & Arranging, University of North Texas
"Teaching and Learning Jazz is the most important book on jazz education I have ever read
...and possibly ever written!"
By Justin DiCioccio, Associate Dean/Chair Emeritus Jazz Arts Program Manhattan School of Music
"Richie lays out such a well-thought-out process regarding the way you can develop as a musician just by utilizing your own talents and assembled knowledge. Pay careful attention - this man knows what he is talking about."
By Randy Brecker
History and profiles of the most influential jazz pianists of the past 100 years as told by Richie:
- Art Tatum
- Bid Powell
- Thelonious Monk
- Bill Evans
- Paul Bley
- Herbie Hancock
- McCoy Tyner
- Chick Corea
- Keith Jarrett
- Cecil Taylor
"Using three iconic jazz recordings (and their artists), Richie & Michael Lake explain how these recordings reach people well beyond the horizons of jazz.
Thanks to Richie and Michael for reminding us what it means to create true art."
- Rich DeRosa, Director of Jazz Composition & Arranging, University of North Texas
Richard Alan Beirach was born on 23 May 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City and started playing the piano at the age of 5. From age 6 to age 18, Richie was given lessons by the pianist and composer James Palmieri. “James Palmieri showed me everything that I know about the piano,…he made me understand the deeper meaning of music.”
At the age of 13, while staying at a friend’s place, Richie heard Red Garland’s version of “Billy Boy” from Miles Davis’ album “Milestones”: “I could hardly believe it. This was exactly what I was looking for and what I needed. Until then, I had only had a classical musical education: Mozart, Beethoven, no improvisation. Richie realized that he wanted to devote himself to improvisation and jazz.
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