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Richie Beirach
American jazz pianist and composer
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dead
- born
- 1947
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 78
- known for
- pianist, composer, jazz musician
1947 β 2026

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who richie beirach is
Richard Alan Beirach was an American jazz pianist and composer. He made hundreds of recordings, in the 1970s as an early artist of ECM playing albums including Eon, Leaving, and Hubris, in a duo with saxophone player David Liebman including Forgotten Fantasies, and in many other formations. He taught jazz piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.
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