BEEGIE ADAIR TRIO - AUTUMN LEAVES

AUTUMN LEAVES

BEEGIE ADAIR TRIO

SONGWRITERS: JOSEPH KOSMA &JACQUES PRÉVERT

IN ENGLISH: JOHNNY MERCER

STYLE: INSTRUMENTAL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER

LABEL: VILLAGE SQUARE

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2003

Bobbe Gorin "Beegie" Adair, née Long (born December 11, 1937, Barren County, Kentucky, United States) is an American jazz pianist. She studied piano at Western Kentucky University. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she did graduate work at Peabody College. She later went on to form the Beegie Adair Trio.

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. She has released a six-CD Centennial Composers Collection of tunes by Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Ellington, Carmichael and Berlin. Adair cites George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner among her influences.

She lives in Franklin, Tennessee. Her late husband, Billy, was an associate professor of jazz studies at the Blair School in Vanderbilt University until his death in February 2014. She is a Board & Faculty member of the Nashville Jazz Workshop and performs regularly in Nashville.

"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma with lyrics by Jacques Prévert.