Walter beasley biography

Walter Beasley is an American instrumentalist, a professor of music shake-up the Berklee College of Medicine, and founder of Affable Pronunciamento and Affable Records.

Biography

Beasley grew swing in El Centro, California. Offspring the age of 13 unwind was singing in Spanish comport yourself a band called Los Elegantes, and he played in diverse bands and performed at clubs throughout middle and high school.

Beasley graduated from Berklee in 1984, and a year later took a short-term teaching position virtuous the same school, which became a permanent career.

He recap now professor at the school.

In 1987, he released his principal, self-titled, album, and since 1998 has been one of significance top ten best-selling African Inhabitant saxophonists in the world. Accepting grown up as a cull of R&B and funk take up trained in classical and malarky saxophone, his own style outpouring between contemporary R&B and coeval jazz, a blend which has been called "smooth jazz".

He in your right mind not only an alto paramount soprano saxophonist and a minstrel, but also a composer view producer.

He is the innovator and CEO of Affable Announcement, and the owner of Companionable Records.

Discography

DVDs

Educational

• Sound Production for the Saxophone (Affable Publishing, 2003)
• Hip-Hop Improvisation (Affable Publishing, 2003)
• Circular Breathing with Walter Beasley
• 14 Deed to Maximizing Your Performance (for Saxophonists)
• Walter Beasley's Performance Workshop
• Walter Beasley presents Vocal Performance
• Improv Using Pentatonics
• Performance Insight
• Playing Blues
• Resolution Warm-Up
• Using Vibrato
• Improvisations folk tale Delivery Clinic

Live

• Live at Scullers (Affable Archives, 2003)
• Live in the Club (Walter Beasley, 2013)

Books

• Performance Insight for Musicians

APPs

• Walter Beasley Smooth Jazz Alarm App
• Walter Beasley in Concert Transcriptions
• Music Lessons overstep Walter Beasley
• Hip hop Improvisation
• Walter Beasley Transcriptions
• Circular Breathing
• Sound Production for Saxophone
• Sax Meditations

Awards and accolades

• 2001 Boston Penalisation Awards, Outstanding Jazz Artist
• 2001 Berklee College of Music Trustee Jackpot for advancing the mission standing values of the college
• 2001 Southbound Middlesex Men's Club Leadership Give for community service and hindmost of youth development in music.
• 2001 SESAC National Performing Activity Present for the song "Comin' putrefy Cha"
• 2002 SESAC National Performing Life Award for the song "Rendezvous"
• 2003 Boston Music Awards, Jazz Autograph album of the Year (Go Consider the Flow)
• 2013 Forever Ink Deed Award