2014 release, a jazz piano tribute to Tony Bennett featuring Beegie Adair with the Jeff Steinberg Orchestra. Born in Cave City, Kentucky, a small farming community of 1,400 residents, Beegie Adair pronounced B-G grew up avidly listening to music. Adair serves as adjunct professor in jazz studies at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and currently teaches singers repertoire at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Beegie credits as her main influences Jimmy Jones, George Shearing, Teddy Wilson, Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Russ.