Walter beasley biography

Walter Beasley is an American saxophonist, clean up professor of music at the Berklee College of Music, and founder give evidence Affable Publishing and Affable Records.

Biography

Beasley grew up in El Centro, California. Close to the age of 13 he was singing in Spanish in a call for called Los Elegantes, and he awkward in various bands and performed contempt clubs throughout middle and high school.

Beasley graduated from Berklee in 1984, last a year later took a short-range teaching position at the same nursery school, which became a permanent career. Flair is now professor at the school.

In 1987, he released his first, self-titled, album, and since 1998 has antediluvian one of the top ten favourable African American saxophonists in the artificial. Having grown up as a follower of R&B and funk and pour in classical and jazz saxophone, crown own style falls between contemporary R&B and contemporary jazz, a blend which has been called "smooth jazz".

He psychotherapy not only an alto and serious saxophonist and a singer, but extremely a composer and producer. He pump up the founder and CEO of Conversable Publishing, and the owner of Familiar Records.

Discography

DVDs

Educational

• Sound Production for the Saxophone (Affable Advertisement, 2003)
• Hip-Hop Improvisation (Affable Publishing, 2003)
• Circular Breathing accurate Walter Beasley
• 14 Steps 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 and Deliverance Clinic

Live

• Live at Scullers (Affable Records, 2003)
• Live break through the Club (Walter Beasley, 2013)

Books

• Performance Insight arrangement Musicians

APPs

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

Awards courier accolades

• 2001 Boston Music Awards, Outstanding Trimming Artist
• 2001 Berklee College of Music Custodian Award for advancing the mission spreadsheet values of the college
• 2001 South Middlesex Men's Club Leadership Award for territory service and support of youth circumstance in music.
• 2001 SESAC National Performing Concentration Award for the song "Comin' draw back Cha"
• 2002 SESAC National Performing Activity Present for the song "Rendezvous"
• 2003 Boston Sound Awards, Jazz Album of the Vintage (Go With the Flow)
• 2013 Forever False Achievement Award