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- Richie Beirach was born on May 23, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021), Soldiers of Salamina (2003) and Shichinin no keiji (1961). He died on January 26, 2026.
- In his high-school days, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music.
- In 2000, he moved to Germany, where he taught jazz piano at the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy high school for some time, wrote a handful of advanced piano mastery texts such as The Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano and teamed up with an ensemble of Hessheim-area young players for a new trio and continued to release new music.
- In 1972, after completing a master's in music theory and composition at MSM, the pianist began a live apprenticeship with Stan Getz before joining up with Liebman in 1973, continuing on with the saxophonist throughout the 1970s, then as part of Quest during the whole of the 1980s.
- Jazz pianist and composer whose earliest works were crucial to the rise of ECM Records.
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