Music like Beegie Adair

Bobbe Gorin (BG) "Beegie" Adair, née Long (born December 11, 1937 in Cave City, Barren County, Kentucky, United States), is an American jazz pianist. Beginning piano lessons at age five, she continued to study piano and received her B.S. in music at Western Kentucky University. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she did graduate work at Peabody College; she became a session musician working at WSM-TV and on "The Johnny Cash Show" (1969–71), where she accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton, Lucille Ball, Steve Allen, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott, and Peggy Lee. She formed the Beegie Adair Trio, which has sold over 1.5 million albums.

Adair has recorded and appeared in over 90 recordings (37 of which are recorded with her trio, the Beegie Adair Trio, which consists of bassist Roger Spencer and percussionist Chris Brown), ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads to jazz covers of Christmas songs. In 2002, she released a six-CD centennial collection, entitled The Great American Songbook Collection, with tunes by Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Ellington, Carmichael, Berlin and other classic American composers. Adair cites Jimmy Jones, George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, and Russ Freeman (Chet Baker's pianist) among her influences.