Beverly Ritz: News

"It was the BEST audience of my career and my best performance," says Beverly Ritz, reflecting on her solo piano concert in Florence, Oregon on Sunday, March 21, 2010. The enthusiastic audience wanted jazz piano with substance, and they got it! The 19 songs performed that afternoon included compositions of George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Richard Rodgers, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Marian McPartland, Horace Silver, and, ofcourse, Beverly Ritz.

Kathy Parsons, music educator & music journalist, has done an insightful interview with Beverly Ritz, and you can read this on Kathy's web site at:  www.mainlypiano.com/Interviews/Ritz,_Beverly_10.html

In lovely Florence, Oregon, on March 21 at 3 p.m., Beverly will give a solo piano concert to raise funds for Haitian orphans.

A list of sheet music created & published by Beverly Ritz is now on this web site in the "BUY" section. Original songs, arrangements of jazz standards, and Christmas songs & hymns!

Same great music...LACEY MAE is now available in a beautiful, full-color wallet with Scott Yanow's introductory notes on the inside.

On Saturday, August 22,2009, from 11 A.M to noon, Beverly Ritz was interviewed and selections from LACEY MAE were aired on ArtistFirst.com Radio. If you missed the live interview, you can go to the web site and check the archives.

Great article in The Triplicate, the newspaper in Crescent City, California.

After receiving 2 invitations from the creative genius behind www.jango.com, I submitted my music to this web site and then found a most unexpected treasure. On www.jango.com, you build your own play list for a personal radio station, thus creating the most satisfying radio listening experience!! I recommend this wonderful web site to everyone. And, when you are there, ofcourse don't forget to request music by Beverly Ritz! By the way, after only 2 days of airplay, songs from LACEY MAE and BY ROWDY CREEK amassed so many fans that the music was placed in "general rotation!!" Thank you, Jango Radio fans!

KMHD of Portland, Oregon, has broadcast ALL NINE songs from LACEY MAE during prime time!!! Al Evans, d.j. for "Saturday Night Jazz," has played: Little Sunflower, Naima, All Blues, Summertime, My Favorite Things, Blues For Phil, Willow Creek, Lacey Mae, and I Love You, Phil on 9 consecutive Saturday nights!!!!!!!!!

"If The River Could Remind You," Beverly's piano/voice composition about love and the Siuslaw River (in Lane County, Oregon) has just been published and is available for purchase through this web site!

THREE top jazz radio stations, KMHD--of Portland, Oregon, KKJZ--of Los Angeles, California, and KEWU--of Cheney, Washington--ALL FM 24/7 JAZZ RADIO STATIONS--have requested LACEY MAE for their music libraries!!!

Also, "Little Sunflower" from LACEY MAE is being played on WPMJ, Sirius-B Satellite Radio's "Cruisin' Jazz" station!