"A longtime favorite of discerning Portland jazzers."
-George Fendel, Our Town Magazine, KMHD radio



Welcome to billbeach.com, website for jazz pianist Bill Beach, Portland, Oregon.

In a performing career that spans more that 25 years Bill Beach has performed with many jazz legends including Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Howard Roberts, Mark Murphy, Charlie Rouse, Frank Morgan, Jimmy Cobb and Nat Adderley. He has studied with Marian McPartland, Jack DeJohnette and Warren Bernhardt. Bill has performed in Japan, Mexico, England, Holland and Belgium. Release of his CD, Letting Go is scheduled for November of 2004.

Read new reviews of Bill's 2005 CD Letting Go!

"Bill Beach is a swinging jazz pianist with a terrific sense of motion, understated pyrotechnics and a fleet set of rhythmic reflexes. Singers and instrumentalists (including well-knowns like Joe Henderson, Mark Murphy and Bobby Hutcherson) have known that for years. What's been kept under wraps is that Beach is also a great singer, with a soft João Gilberto timbre and a yen for slinky bossa novas (sung in Portuguese, no less!). Not to be deterred by a recent car-crash, the pianist is not only getting around but playing at the top of his game."
-Tim Duroche, Willamette Week, 6-15-05