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John Beasley (born September 28, 1960〔''U.S. Public Records Index'', Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.〕) is an American composer, pianist, producer, and arranger who has recorded and performed with musicians such as Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Chaka Khan, James Brown, Spice Girls, Dianne Reeves, Ry Cooder, Chick Corea and Sérgio Mendes, Freddie Hubbard, John Patitucci, Queen Latifah, Lee Ritenour and Mike Stern (The Freeway Jam Band) and Ivan Lins. ==Biography== Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Beasley is third-generation musician who was raised in a house filled with music. His grandfather, Rule Oliver, played trombone in territory bands and was a junior high school band director for 50 years in Arkansas. His mother, Lida Beasley, is a brass instrumentalist, who for most of her career taught music at various public schools and colleges, along with being band director and conducting operas. Growing up around musicians, Beasley learned how to play trumpet, oboe, drums, saxophone, and flute, mostly because of his mother's need for wind instrumentalists for her bands. His father, Rule Curtis Beasley (b. 1931), is a pianist and bassoonist, who played with the Fort Worth Symphony.〔E. Ruth Anderson (1928– ), ''Contemporary American Composers, A Biographical Dictionary,'' first edition, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston (1976).〕〔E. Ruth Anderson (1928– ), ''Contemporary American Composers. A biographical dictionary,'' second edition, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1982).〕〔''International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory,'' eighth edition, International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England (1977)〕〔Adrian Gaster, ''International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory,'' ninth edition, International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England (1980).〕〔''International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory,'' 10th edition, International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England (1984).〕〔''Who's Who in American Music: Classical,'' R. R. Bowker, New York (1983)〕〔''Who's Who in Entertainment,'' 2nd edition, 1992-1993, Marquis Who's Who, Wilmette, Illinois (1992).〕〔''Who's Who in Entertainment,'' 3rd edition, 1998–1999, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, New Jersey (1997).〕〔''Who's Who in the West. 21st edition, 1987-1988,'' Marquis Who's Who, Wilmette, Illinois (1987).〕 Rule Beasley also was a professor of music composition at University of North Texas College of Music and at Santa Monica College, where he taught many musicians performing today. Beasley created a drum set with garbage can lids and kitchen pots and pans when he was around two years old. His grandfather started bringing him drum parts, which he put together, and had a drum set from age four to high school. Beasley began piano lessons at the age of seven and stopped taking formal lessons when he started high school. In sixth grade, he had private lessons with a university oboe teacher that lasted three years. He taught himself to play the sax, flute, and trumpet and began playing for the John Adams Junior School and Santa Monica College orchestras that his mother led. He was also in the state choir but quit because he got bored. Beasley started writing music in junior high school. After his father bought him a Bobby Timmons record, he wanted to play jazz. In Grade 7, he formed a jazz band with high school-aged friends. Always mesmerized by inner melodies and day-dreaming, on family camping trips he packed his score pad to compose and arrange. As soon as he graduated from high school, he started 'gigging'; playing in bars when he was too young to get entry as a customer. Fearless about learning and performing, in just a few years he was touring around the U.S. and internationally with Sérgio Mendes and Freddie Hubbard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Beasley (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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