Walter Beasley

Walter Beasley
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Styles: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Urban, Smooth Jazz
Biography: An R&B-ish player whose music sometimes crosses over into jazz, Walter Beasley's sound is a perfect paradigm for defining "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz, and he a talented musician. After briefly playing trumpet, Beasley switched to saxophone when he was nine and was soon inspired by Grover Washington, ...Read full biography
For Her
Released: 2005
Label: Telarc
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The title track of veteran saxman Walter Beasley's latest jaunt into funky, groovy, and super-sensuous territory -- and his debut on Heads Up International -- has a brilliant and amusing anecdote attached. ...Read full review
For Your Pleasure
Released: 1998
Label: Shanachie
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Saxmen always seem intent on giving listeners a fair amount of pleasure, as Marion Meadows (Pleasure) and now Walter Beasley on For Your Pleasure demonstrate. Beasley -- who started his career in the '80s ...Read full review
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