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Join Bill Beach, Christoph Greiner and Jay Veach for an evening playing the music of Brazil and Bill’s original songs written in Portugese. Bill Beach piano, vocalsChristoph Greiner bassJay Veach drums billbeach. com Bill Beach is a pianist, vocalist and composer who has performed with many jazz legends including Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Nat Adderley, Mark Murphy, Charlie Rouse and Howard Roberts. He has studied with Marian McPartland, Jack DeJohnette and Warren Bernhardt. Bill and his bands have performed in Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and many European countries. In 2003 Bill began studying Portuguese and singing Brazilian music. In 2004 he released his first CD, ‘LETTING GO’, a mix of Brazilian vocals and original instrumentals and shortly after established his own label, AXIAL RECORDS. As he continued to study the language of Brazil, travel to Brazil and learn more music from that culture he also began to write his own lyrics in Portuguese. In 2010 he released the CD ‘BRAZIL BEAT’, comprised completely of original music and his Portuguese lyrics. He followed that in 2011 with the release of ‘BUZIOS’, also all original. His music has been used in film and television productions by Warner Brothers, CBS, Fox and Netflix. Bill continues to perform with his jazz trio and quartet but has also established his band BILL BEACH & BRASIL BEAT to focus on the music of Brazil and his own original songs written in Portuguese. During his past tenure as bassist with the Swing Shift Jazz Orchestra Christoph Greiner had the opportunity to perform with many notable Jazz artists including Clairdee, George Colligan, Gary Hobbs, Holly Hofman, Mike Horsfall, Ken Peplowski, Hubert Laws, Darmon Meader, Dick Oats, Chuck Redd, Bobby Shew, Idit Shner and Mike Wofford. Christoph is a cofounder of the Eugene Hard Bop Collective and also performs regularly with Nancy Hamilton, Bob Ragan’s “Slightly Retro Jazz”, Jazz Symbiosis and Canadian jazz guitarist R. Allan Vance. While still living in Germany, Christoph had the fortune to study Jazz bass with “European monster bassist” (T. Conrad) Dieter Ilg (EchoJazz bass award 2011/14/16) . Once in Oregon, he continued refining his skills by participating in festival-attending UO combos directed by Steve Owen, Gary Versace and Toby Koenigsberg. Jay Veach is a drummer, vocalist, composer, and arranger based in Oregon. He serves as the Music Teams Director at New Hope West, Drum Instructor at MPAC (Music and Performing Arts Center) , and Music Director of Generations Wedding and Events Band. He is also the drummer for the University of Oregon’s Herb Merker JazzArts Oregon Group as well as the Oregon Jazz Ensemble. Online ticket purchases close one hour before showtime. If the show is NOT sold out, and tickets remain, they can be purchased directly at the box office door. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.
