Beegie Adair Bio

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Once in a while a musician comes along with impeccable technique, deep understanding of the jazz repertoire, an innate tendency to swing and the rare ability to communicate the heart and soul of a tune to listeners. That musician is Beegie Adair.

About her music Adair says, “Falling in love with jazz is like falling in love with a person, except with jazz you never get over it.” About Beegie (say B-G) Adair, what do others say?

Jazz great Helen Merrill salutes her “inventive jazz sense, her wonderful sense of time and improvised melody.”

Christopher Louden of Jazz Times magazine says Adair is “an accomplished artist with a delicate touch.”

The Los Angeles Times calls her music “Elegant.”

Entertainment News writes, “Beegie Adair is one of the finest piano players in the world.”

Intrigued? So are thousands of jazz fans, who agree with critics about Adair’s sophisticated and listenable jazz performances, and who have made her recordings among the biggest sellers in the jazz world.

Citing George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner among her influences, Adair has recorded 24 CDs, ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads. Her 6-CD Centennial Composers Collection of tunes by Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Ellington, Carmichael and Berlin became an instant collectible classic when it was released in 2002.

Kentucky born and raised, Adair lives and records in Nashville – something of a surprise to people who associate the city solely with country music. In fact Nashville lives up to its “Music City” nickname by hosting a vibrant jazz scene, in which she has been a leading light for decades. A sought-after studio musician in her early days there, Adair accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash – and also worked with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee.

Her guests on Improvised Thoughts, Beegie’s radio talk/music show on the local NPR affiliate, included such greats as Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Marian McPartland, Benny Golson and Helen Merrill. She has guested on McPartland’s Piano Jazz show and has performed with Nat Adderley, Bill Watrous, Lew Tabackin, Terry Clarke, Urbie Green and Jim Ferguson, among many others.

When she’s not in the studio or appearing in clubs and concert halls around the country, Adair wears a variety of hats, from adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University to teacher and mentor at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Recently she co-wrote and scored an innovative theatrical production, Betsy, which in April 2006 premiered off-Broadway in New York.

She has recorded eight projects for Village Square Records in Nashville; her most recent CDs are Sentimental Journey, a popular collection of World War II-era songs, and a solo piano recording, Quiet Romance.

She performs solo and with the Beegie Adair Trio, whose members include drummer Chris Brown, a veteran of the Maynard Ferguson ensemble, and bassist Roger Spencer, who has played with the Les Brown Band, Ray Conniff, the Page Cavanaugh Trio and Pete Jolly. They are, she says, “my main guys. They’re so tuned into the way I visualize music that it’s effortless to play with them.”

In clubs and concert venues from Los Angeles to New York, Beegie and her “main guys” win kudos from audiences and critics alike who appreciate her unique take on classic jazz. She fell in love with the music a long time ago, and indeed she’s never gotten over it -- a love affair the jazz world is much the better for.

Three Coins In A Fountain
Beegie Adair Lyrics

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Make it mine
Make it mine
Please, make it mine

Three coins in the fountain
Each one seeking happiness
Thrown by three hopeful lovers
Which on will the fountain bless

Three hearts in the fountain
Each heart longing for its home
There they lie in the fountain
Somewhere in the heart of Rome

Which one will the fountain bless
Which one will the fountain bless

Three coins in the fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
Just one wish will be granted
One heart will wear a valentine

Make it mine
Make it mine
Make it mine

Which one will the fountain bless
Which one will the fountain bless

Three coins in the fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
Just one wish will be granted
One heart will wear a valentine

Make it mine

Make it mine
Make it mine

Overall Meaning

The song "Three Coins In A Fountain" by Beegie Adair is a classic tale of three hopeful lovers throwing coins into a fountain in Rome, each hoping to find happiness and to have their wish granted. The song captures the longing and yearning of the lovers as they toss their coins into the water, hoping that fate (or perhaps the fountain) will bless them with the love they so desperately seek. The repeated plea of "Make it mine, make it mine, please make it mine" underscores the desperation of these hopeful romantics.

The song goes on to suggest that while all three hearts long for their home, it is not clear which of the three hopeful lovers will be granted their wish. While the imagery of the three coins in the fountain adds a romantic and poetic element to the song, its underlying theme is universal - the desire for love, connection and happiness. The song is not only a classic love song but also a timeless reminder that, no matter how different we may seem on the surface, we all share the same longings and desires at our core.

Line by Line Meaning

Three coins in the fountain
Three coins are thrown in a fountain

Each one seeking happiness
Each coin represents someone hoping for something good to happen

Thrown by three hopeful lovers
Three people in love throw the coins

Which one will the fountain bless
Which person's wish will come true?

Three hearts in the fountain
Three people's hearts are invested in the fountain

Each heart longing for its home
Each person wants to find their true love and be with them forever

There they lie in the fountain
The three coins are resting in the water

Somewhere in the heart of Rome
The fountain is located in the city of Rome

Through the ripples how they shine
The coins shimmer in the water

Just one wish will be granted
Only one person's wish will come true

One heart will wear a valentine
One person will find love and be happy

Make it mine
Please let my wish come true

Please, make it mine
I'm begging for my wish to be granted

Which one will the fountain bless
Which person's wish will come true?

Make it mine
Please let my wish come true

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn

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