Beegie Adair - Good Life: A Jazz Piano Tribute to Tony Bennett (CD)

Details: 2014 release, a jazz piano tribute to Tony Bennett featuring Beegie Adair with the Jeff Steinberg Orchestra. Born in Cave City, Kentucky, a small farming community of 1,400 residents, Beegie Adair (pronounced B-G) grew up avidly listening to music. Adair serves as adjunct professor in jazz studies at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and currently teaches singers repertoire at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Beegie credits as her main influences Jimmy Jones, George Shearing, Teddy Wilson, Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Russ.

Tracklist:

1. For Once in My Life
2. Because of You
3. The Best Is Yet to Come
4. Smile
5. Maybe September
6. The Good Life
7. I Wanna Be Around
8. Young and Foolish
9. Rags to Riches
10. The Pawnbroker
11. Steppin' Out with My Baby
12. Cold Cold Heart
13. I Left My Heart in San Francisco