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22731297 | Play | Heirloom (Studio) | 04:38 Tools | |
22731265 | Play | Some Other Time (Studio) | 08:49 Tools | |
22731298 | Play | Azzaro (Studio) | 05:20 Tools | |
22731273 | Play | Continuum (Studio) | 05:54 Tools | |
22731313 | Play | Gargoiles (Studio) | 06:24 Tools | |
22731290 | Play | Round Midnight (Studio) | 08:14 Tools | |
22731361 | Play | Hyperactive Airways (Studio) | 02:35 Tools | |
22731268 | Play | Elm | 08:34 Tools | |
22731276 | Play | Sunday Song | 08:03 Tools | |
22731263 | Play | Nardis | 06:36 Tools | |
22731270 | Play | Leaving | 04:47 Tools | |
22731264 | Play | Spring Is Here | 04:11 Tools | |
22731272 | Play | Places | 05:06 Tools | |
22731279 | Play | Some Other Time | 08:04 Tools | |
22731275 | Play | Haiku 5 – Bullet Train | 03:38 Tools | |
22731284 | Play | My Funny Valentine | 00:00 Tools | |
22731266 | Play | Blue In Green | 00:00 Tools | |
22731291 | Play | You Don't Know What Love Is | 07:00 Tools | |
22731281 | Play | On Green Dolphin Street | 04:23 Tools | |
22731271 | Play | In Your Own Sweet Way | 00:00 Tools | |
22731274 | Play | Peace Piece | 05:00 Tools | |
60424191 | Play | Chant (Radio Edit) | 04:49 Tools | |
22731310 | Play | For B.C | 04:49 Tools | |
22731282 | Play | Haiku - (Intro) – Tokyo Lights At Night | 00:41 Tools | |
22731292 | Play | Seeing You | 04:09 Tools | |
22731285 | Play | All the Things You Are | 03:58 Tools | |
22731269 | Play | Solar | 06:28 Tools | |
22731302 | Play | Haiku 1 – Baker-san | 03:14 Tools | |
22731280 | Play | Eon | 08:15 Tools | |
22731267 | Play | Andantino - Children Song No.1 | 01:51 Tools | |
22731327 | Play | Bones | 03:36 Tools | |
22731278 | Play | Mitsuku | 06:15 Tools | |
22731303 | Play | Alone Together | 06:05 Tools | |
22731364 | Play | Around Dubrawuschka | 05:48 Tools | |
22731283 | Play | Young and Foolish | 06:30 Tools | |
22731300 | Play | Haiku 2 – Butterfly | 03:20 Tools | |
22731293 | Play | Rectilinear | 02:12 Tools | |
22731487 | Play | Broken Wing | 11:57 Tools | |
22731312 | Play | Pendulum | 10:23 Tools | |
22731277 | Play | The Last Rhapsody | 05:44 Tools | |
22731287 | Play | Vadanna | 03:42 Tools | |
22731295 | Play | 'Round Midnight | 06:12 Tools | |
22731328 | Play | Autumn Leaves | 06:13 Tools | |
22731288 | Play | Liquid Silver | 06:00 Tools | |
22731381 | Play | Ancient City of the Future | 03:19 Tools | |
22731286 | Play | Osiris | 03:39 Tools | |
22731289 | Play | Koan | 01:09 Tools | |
22731393 | Play | Paradox | 06:51 Tools | |
22731395 | Play | Musica Callada #15 | 02:32 Tools | |
22731322 | Play | Snow Leopard | 12:34 Tools | |
22731348 | Play | Foolish Door | 05:07 Tools | |
22731321 | Play | Naima | 00:00 Tools | |
22731294 | Play | Future Memory | 04:43 Tools | |
22731296 | Play | Hubris | 05:49 Tools | |
22731352 | Play | Lament for Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 03:56 Tools | |
22731350 | Play | Flamenco Sketches | 06:53 Tools | |
22731396 | Play | Haiku 3 – Cherry Blossom Time | 03:46 Tools | |
22731331 | Play | The Pearl | 05:16 Tools | |
22731399 | Play | Sea Priestess | 11:37 Tools | |
22731318 | Play | All Blues | 04:32 Tools | |
22731319 | Play | Blood Count | 03:18 Tools | |
22731353 | Play | Ki | 05:22 Tools | |
22731356 | Play | Midpoint | 06:23 Tools | |
22731325 | Play | Variation No.1 - Sun | 02:18 Tools | |
22731425 | Play | Haiku 4 – Takemitsu-san | 04:54 Tools | |
22731306 | Play | What Is This Thing Called Love | 08:51 Tools | |
22731307 | Play | Essence | 10:10 Tools | |
22731324 | Play | Remember | 05:16 Tools | |
22731430 | Play | Inborn | 07:00 Tools | |
22731520 | Play | Haiku 6 – Togashi-san | 03:28 Tools | |
60424192 | Play | Zal | 00:00 Tools | |
60424193 | Play | Crossing Over | 00:00 Tools | |
22731409 | Play | Eyes of the Heart | 04:03 Tools | |
22731301 | Play | Cossack's Farewell | 07:06 Tools | |
22731482 | Play | Haiku 9 – Zatoichi-Kurosawa | 04:09 Tools | |
22731365 | Play | Haiku 8 – Kabuki | 03:15 Tools | |
22731299 | Play | Night And Day | 05:39 Tools | |
22731400 | Play | My Foolish Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
22731452 | Play | Transition | 09:07 Tools | |
22731447 | Play | Haiku 7 – Japanese Playground | 02:33 Tools | |
22731304 | Play | Old Folks | 10:38 Tools | |
22731346 | Play | Stella By Starlight | 08:39 Tools | |
22731311 | Play | Lucky To Be Me | 04:40 Tools | |
22731320 | Play | Expression | 07:09 Tools | |
22731427 | Play | Song of Experience | 06:21 Tools | |
22731309 | Play | Trust | 00:00 Tools | |
22731370 | Play | Ballad For Bill Evans | 04:41 Tools | |
22731519 | Play | A Quiet, Normal Life | 04:12 Tools | |
22731412 | Play | Infant Eyes | 05:05 Tools | |
22731317 | Play | Lost In The Stars | 05:46 Tools | |
22731387 | Play | Haiku 10 – Rock Garden | 04:47 Tools | |
22731408 | Play | Haiku 12 – Shibumi | 05:30 Tools | |
22731431 | Play | I Got Rhythm | 03:23 Tools | |
22731514 | Play | Haiku 11 – Tragedy In Sendai | 02:39 Tools | |
22731357 | Play | Boston Harry | 05:14 Tools | |
22731360 | Play | Footprints | 07:52 Tools | |
22731342 | Play | Moon River | 03:09 Tools | |
22731329 | Play | Redemption | 06:18 Tools | |
22731358 | Play | Reflections In D. | 05:10 Tools | |
22731454 | Play | Variation no.4 - Windows | 01:33 Tools | |
22731388 | Play | Nightlake | 00:00 Tools | |
22731332 | Play | Citizen Code | 07:31 Tools | |
22731308 | Play | Variation no.2 - Moon | 02:27 Tools | |
22731354 | Play | For All We Know | 04:01 Tools | |
22731372 | Play | Variation no.3 - Stars | 01:32 Tools | |
22731315 | Play | What Are The Rules? | 06:16 Tools | |
60424194 | Play | Richie Beirach - Deception Island | 00:00 Tools | |
22731401 | Play | Gargoyles | 06:31 Tools | |
60424197 | Play | Darkness into Air | 05:10 Tools | |
22731374 | Play | Nocturne N°2 Vignettes | 09:31 Tools | |
22731345 | Play | Pinocchio | 03:52 Tools | |
22731367 | Play | Over The Rainbow | 03:01 Tools | |
22731340 | Play | Jamala | 05:10 Tools | |
60424196 | Play | Song of Innocence | 05:10 Tools | |
60424195 | Play | Deception Island | 05:10 Tools | |
22731377 | Play | Grandfather's Hammer | 05:30 Tools | |
22731406 | Play | Among The Living | 06:37 Tools | |
22731498 | Play | Variation no.5 - Beach | 01:35 Tools | |
22731305 | Play | I Wish I Knew | 06:10 Tools | |
22731373 | Play | Adagio Reprise | 01:12 Tools | |
22731410 | Play | I'll Take Romance | 05:34 Tools | |
22731379 | Play | Nefertiti | 07:10 Tools | |
22731524 | Play | Siciliana | 06:02 Tools | |
60424198 | Play | Invention - Children Song | 05:12 Tools | |
22731337 | Play | Moor | 06:41 Tools | |
22731344 | Play | Goodbye | 04:12 Tools | |
22731385 | Play | Oh, What A Beautiful Morning | 05:27 Tools | |
22731376 | Play | In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | 07:35 Tools | |
22731484 | Play | 'Round Midnight - Live | 06:13 Tools | |
22731411 | Play | Hudba | 05:24 Tools | |
22731403 | Play | Children's Song No. 1 | 05:08 Tools | |
22731334 | Play | Short Prelude No.4 | 04:28 Tools | |
22731526 | Play | Anse Des Flamands | 03:33 Tools | |
22731451 | Play | Manhattan Reverie | 05:12 Tools | |
22731468 | Play | Falling off My Bike | 03:08 Tools | |
22731386 | Play | What Is This Thing Called Love ? | 04:57 Tools | |
22731363 | Play | Johnny B. | 04:32 Tools | |
60424199 | Play | Adagio, Piano Concerto In A Minor Kv488 | 05:12 Tools | |
22731390 | Play | Small World | 05:03 Tools | |
22731378 | Play | If I Were A Bell | 06:40 Tools | |
60424200 | Play | Calcutta | 02:07 Tools | |
22731369 | Play | Chantal's Way | 11:06 Tools | |
22731355 | Play | Summer Night | 04:57 Tools | |
22731339 | Play | Prelude No. 4 | 05:08 Tools | |
22731437 | Play | Sea Priesters | 11:34 Tools | |
22731314 | Play | Fantasy on a theme from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488: II. Adagio | 07:31 Tools | |
22731402 | Play | Gnossiene #1, F Minor | 05:13 Tools | |
60424201 | Play | For B.C. | 05:40 Tools | |
22731421 | Play | Variation no.7 - Evening | 03:05 Tools | |
22731333 | Play | Variation no.6 - Lake | 02:07 Tools | |
22731428 | Play | Over The Rainbow | Small World | In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | 06:27 Tools | |
22731359 | Play | The Snow Leopard | 08:10 Tools | |
22731429 | Play | Chelsea Bridge | 04:27 Tools | |
22731413 | Play | Continuum | 08:30 Tools | |
22731362 | Play | Veils | 05:42 Tools | |
22731380 | Play | Azzaro - Studio | 05:22 Tools | |
22731506 | Play | Variation no.8 - Good Night | 01:56 Tools | |
22731384 | Play | Invisible Corridor/Sunday Song - Monday | 05:17 Tools | |
22731316 | Play | Prelude No.20 C Minor | 06:20 Tools | |
60424202 | Play | What Is This Thing Called Love? | 03:05 Tools | |
22731382 | Play | Around Salcam de Vara | 06:02 Tools | |
22731459 | Play | Around Stenkarasin | 04:30 Tools | |
22731326 | Play | Pathetique -C Minor Slow Movement | 07:01 Tools | |
22731407 | Play | Pavane-G Minor | 05:40 Tools | |
22731341 | Play | Scenes From Childhood-Op15#1 | 05:49 Tools | |
22731441 | Play | Heirloom | 04:40 Tools | |
22731405 | Play | Haiku - (Intro) - Tokyo Lights At Night | 00:38 Tools | |
22731392 | Play | Chant | 03:03 Tools | |
60424205 | Play | Nocturne No 2 Vignettes | 03:03 Tools | |
22731335 | Play | Around Scrijabin Prelude op. 16 | 09:32 Tools | |
87828209 | Play | African Heartbeat | 03:03 Tools | |
87828208 | Play | Around Bartok Bagatelle #4 | 09:32 Tools | |
60424209 | Play | Hyperactive Airways | 04:30 Tools | |
60424203 | Play | Gargoiles | 04:27 Tools | |
60424204 | Play | Azzaro | 04:27 Tools | |
60424213 | Play | Left Longer | 06:13 Tools | |
22731499 | Play | Children's Song No.1 | 05:08 Tools | |
60424206 | Play | Neptune's Bellows | 03:03 Tools | |
60424207 | Play | Around Porumbescu Balada | 09:32 Tools | |
60424208 | Play | Siciliano -G Minor | 05:08 Tools | |
22731505 | Play | Invisible Corridor; Sunday Song_Monday | 05:15 Tools | |
22731336 | Play | Distant Voices | 00:00 Tools | |
22731338 | Play | Haiku 1 - Baker-san | 03:14 Tools | |
22731438 | Play | Musica Callada No.22 | 06:13 Tools | |
22731347 | Play | Musica Callada No. 22 | 06:13 Tools | |
22731343 | Play | Around Kodaly's World | 07:40 Tools | |
22731383 | Play | Impressions Intimas - #1 A Minor | 08:09 Tools | |
60424214 | Play | The Peacocks | 05:18 Tools | |
22731351 | Play | Prelude For Piano -#4 E Minor | 07:52 Tools | |
60424210 | Play | Round Midnight | 07:52 Tools | |
22731420 | Play | Short Prelude No. 4 | 04:28 Tools | |
60424218 | Play | D.L. | 05:13 Tools | |
60424211 | Play | Footprints In The Snow | 05:08 Tools | |
60424212 | Play | Musica Callada #1 | 05:08 Tools | |
22731461 | Play | Haiku 3 - Cherry Blossom Time | 03:46 Tools | |
22731330 | Play | Steel Prayers - Ballad For 9/11 WTC. | 04:25 Tools | |
22731495 | Play | Prelude No.4 | 05:08 Tools | |
60424215 | Play | Medley: Over The Rainbow / Small World / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | 06:25 Tools | |
89665719 | Play | Around Bartók Bagatelle No.4 | 03:23 Tools | |
22731349 | Play | Haiku 2 - Butterfly | 03:23 Tools | |
22731391 | Play | In The Wee Small Hours | 07:35 Tools | |
60424222 | Play | Apprentice / Master | 05:08 Tools | |
60424216 | Play | Chappaqua | 08:54 Tools | |
22731480 | Play | Gargoiles - Studio | 06:25 Tools | |
22731475 | Play | Etude | 08:54 Tools | |
60424217 | Play | The Town Hall Suite: Prologue | 08:54 Tools | |
22731463 | Play | Tokyo | 05:13 Tools | |
22731517 | Play | Around Bartók's World | 06:06 Tools | |
22731436 | Play | Musica Callada No. 1 | 05:18 Tools | |
60424220 | Play | Johnny B | 03:23 Tools | |
60424219 | Play | Vicious Circle | 03:23 Tools | |
60424221 | Play | Invisible Corridor - Sunday Song - Monday | 03:23 Tools | |
22731375 | Play | Haiku 5 - Bullet Train | 03:36 Tools | |
87828210 | Play | Adagio - Piano Concerto In A Minor KV488 | 03:10 Tools | |
60424224 | Play | Penguins On Parade | 03:36 Tools | |
60424225 | Play | The Ice Shelf | 01:14 Tools | |
22731472 | Play | Cassack's Farewell | 07:06 Tools | |
22731511 | Play | Haunted Heart | 04:10 Tools | |
60424223 | Play | Full Circle | 07:06 Tools | |
87828212 | Play | The Last Phapsody | 06:17 Tools | |
22731527 | Play | Haiku 7 - Japanese Playground | 02:33 Tools | |
22731458 | Play | Haiku 6 - Togashi-san | 03:28 Tools | |
22731456 | Play | Haiku 4 - Takemitsu-san | 04:56 Tools | |
22731474 | Play | Some Other Time - Studio | 08:52 Tools | |
22731462 | Play | Fantasy on Orfeos Lament | 01:14 Tools | |
60424235 | Play | Gentle Rain | 05:30 Tools | |
22731419 | Play | Around Dialog Orfeo Messanger | 03:10 Tools | |
60424226 | Play | Wisteria | 01:14 Tools | |
60424227 | Play | What Are The Rules | 01:14 Tools | |
60424228 | Play | ...Des Pas Sur La Neige (Prelude Book 1, No. 6) | 01:14 Tools | |
22731404 | Play | Orfeos lament | 07:29 Tools | |
60424229 | Play | Bagatelle, Opus 6, No. 1 | 02:39 Tools | |
22731522 | Play | Lamento d'Arianna | 01:34 Tools | |
22731504 | Play | Haiku 11 - Tragedy In Sendai | 02:39 Tools | |
60424234 | Play | So What | 07:29 Tools | |
22731466 | Play | Haiku 10 - Rock Garden | 04:47 Tools | |
60424230 | Play | Musica Callada, No. 1 | 03:10 Tools | |
22731394 | Play | Heirloom - Studio | 04:40 Tools | |
22731503 | Play | cho.Etude (No.6 in E♭minor, Op.10) | 00:30 Tools | |
60424231 | Play | Música Callada No. 22 | 00:30 Tools | |
22731397 | Play | Adagio/Piano Concerto In A Minor KV488 | 06:17 Tools | |
60424232 | Play | Inamorata | 05:15 Tools | |
60424233 | Play | My Funny Valintine | 05:15 Tools | |
22731518 | Play | impressiones intimas #1 | 04:33 Tools | |
89665720 | Play | Young & Foolish | 04:33 Tools | |
22731445 | Play | Haiku 12 - Shibumi | 05:30 Tools | |
22731417 | Play | Haiku 9 - Zatoichi-Kurosawa | 04:12 Tools | |
22731528 | Play | Dialog Orfeo Messanger | 04:21 Tools | |
87828211 | Play | Lost in Translation | 07:29 Tools | |
60424246 | Play | Mirage | 05:56 Tools | |
60424236 | Play | Grandfather´s Hammer | 04:12 Tools | |
60424248 | Play | The Empress | 04:21 Tools | |
22731488 | Play | Vendetta | 05:35 Tools | |
60424237 | Play | Jung | 05:35 Tools | |
22731446 | Play | Haiku 8 - Kabuki | 03:15 Tools | |
22731500 | Play | Blue And Green | 00:00 Tools | |
60424238 | Play | Responsorium #5 | 00:00 Tools | |
60424239 | Play | You Don't Know What Love Is あなたは恋を知らない | 00:00 Tools | |
60424240 | Play | Prelude (Op. 28, No. 20 In C Minor) | 06:17 Tools | |
60424241 | Play | Musica Callada #6 | 04:33 Tools | |
89665721 | Play | 'Round Midnight (Live) | 04:33 Tools | |
60424242 | Play | Ben Mio, rimanti in pace | 06:27 Tools | |
22731464 | Play | Medley: Over the Rainbow/Small World/In the Wee Small Hours of the Mo | 06:27 Tools | |
89665722 | Play | Con Alma | 06:27 Tools | |
60424243 | Play | Musica Callada, No.1 | 06:27 Tools | |
60424245 | Play | Eja mater fons amoris | 06:02 Tools | |
60424244 | Play | Musica Callada #22 | 06:02 Tools | |
22731453 | Play | Continuum - Studio | 05:56 Tools | |
60424247 | Play | Fantasie on Musica Callada #18 | 04:21 Tools | |
89665723 | Play | Fantasy on Fili mi, Absalon | 04:21 Tools | |
60424249 | Play | Goddbye | 04:21 Tools | |
87828213 | Play | Sancta Mater, istud agas | 04:21 Tools | |
60424250 | Play | Expressions | 04:21 Tools | |
22731448 | Play | The Sky Is The Limit | 13:52 Tools | |
22731455 | Play | Hyperactive Airways - Studio | 02:36 Tools | |
60424251 | Play | Variation #2 - Moon | 02:36 Tools | |
60424252 | Play | Veils ヴェイルス | 02:36 Tools | |
60424253 | Play | Manhattan Reverie マンハッタンの幻想 | 02:36 Tools |
Richard "Richie" Beirach (born May 23, 1947) is a jazz pianist born in New York City. He initially studied both classical and jazz before entering the Berklee College of Music. In 1972 he began working with Stan Getz. He also worked with Chet Baker and in the 1990s worked well with French saxophonist Henrik Frisk. He maintained an ongoing musical partnership with David Liebman from the 1970s to the 90s, in Lookout Farm, Quest and many duos. Richie Beirach's style is influenced by Art Tatum, Bill Evans, and his earlier classical training. It is also individualistic with many touches all its own. Several of his compositions, "Leaving" and "Elm" for instance, have found their way into the jazz standard repertoire. Richie Beirach Richard Aron Beirach was born on 23 May 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City. Having a sheltered childhood, he started playing the piano at the age of 5. From age 6 to age 18, Beirach was given lessons by the pianist und composer James Palmieri. “James Palmieri showed me everything that I know about music,...he made me understand the deeper meaning of music.” Palmieri’s lessons were strictly classic and until age 13, Beirach exclusively dealt with classical music.When, at the age of 13, he stayed at a friend’s place, he 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, what I needed. Until then, I had only had a classical musical education: Mozart, Beethoven, no improvisation. I took the album to my teacher. He hated it, he hated it a lot…”Beirach realized that he wanted to devote himself to improvisation and Jazz. He tried and got in touch with Jazz musicians, while continuing to take lessons with Palmieri. In the middle of the 1960s, Richard Beirach entered the New York club scene, played innumerable gigs and jam sessions, with, among others, Freddie Hubbard and Lee Konitz, while, at the same time occasionally working as a longshoreman at the docks of New York.In 1967, he went to Boston in order to study at the Berklee College Of Music, where Keith Jarrett, Miroslav Vitous and John Abercrombie were enrolled as well at that time. But he only stayed for one year and returned to New York in 1968, where he started a composition degree with Ludmilla Ulehla at the Manhattan School Of Music, from which he graduated in 1972 with a “Master Of Music”. Soon afterwards, he played in the band of Stan Getz, together with bass player Dave Holland and drummer Jack deJohnette. The band largely went on worldwide tours.In 1973, he joined the group “Lookout Farm” of the saxophone player Dave Liebman. “Lookout Farm“ became one of the most outstanding groups of the Fusion movement and the cooperation between Beirach and Liebman beyond the group, which broke up in 1976, developed to a close musical partnership. Together, as a duo, they recorded “Forgotten Fantasies”, “Omerta” and “Chant”". In 1976, the first album under Beirach’s own name was released: “Eon”, recorded with drummer Eliot Zigmund and bass player Frank Tusa. For the label ECM, Beirach worked as a leader, e.g. on the albums “Eon“ in 1976, “Elm“ in 1979, “Elegy for Bill Evans“, and as a sideman respectively (for John Abercrombie and George Adams) from the middle of the 1970s until the beginning of the 1980s. His first solo album “Hubris” was released in 1977. At that time, he went on tour a lot with, among others, Chet Baker, John Scofield and John Abercrombie. In the 1980s, Richie Beirach focused increasingly on the solo piano and, parallel to that, on the cooperation with David Liebman in their duo and in the band „Quest“, which they founded together in 1981, with drummers Billy Hart and Al Forster and George Mraz or Ron McClure on the bass, respectively. Until their break-up in 1991, the band recorded six albums: “Quest”, “Quest 2”, “Midpoint: Live at the Montmartre”, “Natural Selection”, “N.Y. Nites: Standards” and “Of one mind”, and went on tours throughout Europe, Asia and South and North America. Stylistically, the quartet did not set any limits and thus played both standards and original compositions with the same intensity and freedom. Beirach then devoted himself increasingly to playing solo. The album “Live in Tokyo“ (1981) was recorded during a Japan tour. Following albums were “Ballads“ and “Ballads 2“, which dealt intensely and in a contemporary manner with the Jazz standard repertoire. Records, which are characterized by non-musical influences, from “Waterlilies”, compositions impressed by the paintings of Claude Monet, and “Breathing of Statues”, after texts by Rilke, to the completely improvised “Self Portraits”, “Sunday Songs” and “Live at Maybeck Recital Hall”, were created at the beginning of the 1990s. “Inspiration”, recorded in 1991 as a member of the RonMcClure Trio, and “Trust”, recorded in 1993 under his own name with Dave Holland and Jack deJohnette, showed Beirach in a trio again. As a co-leader and sideman, he recorded several albums with the trombonist Conrad Herwig, e.g. the duo record “Intimate Conversation”, and, with a bigger band, “The Amulet” and “The Latin Side of John Coltrane”. Since the middle of the 1990s, Beirach has mostly worked with two different trios; together with his musical fellows George Mraz (bass) and Billy Hart (drums), Beirach recorded the album “The Snow Leopard” in 1996. That was followed by “Romantic Rhapsody” and “What is this thing called love”, which showed a fresh view on standards and some own compositions. “No borders” (2002) focuses on classical pieces as a basis for improvisation, and, on the other hand, also contains a completely composed original composition by Beirach: “Steel Prayers”, a piece for the victims of 9/11. To take classical pieces and open them for improvisation, without depriving them of their character, is also the basic principle in the cooperation with violinist Gregor Hübner. The trio with Beirach, Hübner and again George Mraz on the bass has released three albums with the label ACT. “Round about Bartok”, “Round about Federico Mompou” and “Round about Monteverdi” are each dedicated to the respective composer and try and approach them via improvisation. Since 2000, Richie Beirach lives in Leipzig and holds a professorship for Jazz piano at the Leipzig conservatory "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy". Read more on Last.fm. 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