American (now German-based) pianist Richie Beirach has enjoyed a career spanning five-plus decades, over the course of which he has played in the bands of Chet Baker and Stan Getz, been part […]
Between 1989 and 1995, Concord Records produced 42 solo piano recitals, all recorded in Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley in California. Each recital featured a different jazz pianist; the series eventually consisted of 42 CDs. The entire […]
“It was probably the high point of my musical life”, says American pianist and composer Richie Beirach of his experience performing in Japan with Wayne Shorter in 1987. Beirach writes a personal […]
Reiner Witzel, Richie Beirach, Alex Sipiagin, Joscha Oetz & Tobias Frohnhöfer – The World Within (Jazzsick Records 5165 JS – album review by Charles Rees) If German saxophonist Reiner Witzel is known […]
Richie Beirach, Gregor Huebner & Veit Huebner – Testaments: Richie Beirachs 75. Birthday Celebration (O-Tone Music OT-053-2. Album review by Charles Rees) American pianist/composer Richie Beirach was 75 in May this year. […]
“He had an amazing sound on tenor. He was ahead of everyone…and he was the best one…he was the most advanced and the most… just he had that f…ing sound!” Pianist/composer Richie […]
Outreach Festival (Schwaz, Austria 6-8 August 2020. Review and photos by Oliver Weindling) The Outreach Festival has now been going for 28 years. Taking place in Schwaz, just outside Innsbruck, a […]
