Joe Beck
Studio and session guitarist Joe Beck was well known for hits when backing vocalist Esther Phillips on Kudu in the '70s, although his session credentials over the years also included the likes of Miles Davis, James Brown, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and Gil Evans. During the '80s he made a series of competent fusion and pop-jazz recordings for DMP and had a big hit recording with Dave Sanborn on CTI in 1975. His career continued into the '90s and beyond with albums like 1991's Relaxin', 1997's Alto, and his 2000 collaboration with Jimmy Bruno, Polarity. Beck was active throughout most of the new millennium’s first decade with recordings on a variety of labels, including a number of CDs on Whaling City Sound, such as 2002's Just Friends, 2007's Tri07, 2008's Coincidence (a duo recording with John Abercrombie), and 2009's Golden Earrings. The latter album, featuring Beck and singer Laura Theodore performing music made famous by singer Peggy Lee, proved to be Beck’s final recording -- the guitarist was diagnosed with lung cancer soon after work on Golden Earrings had been completed and died from complications of the disease in July 2008 at age 62.
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Discography
24 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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The Crazy One
Rock - Released by Scarlet and Skin Records on Oct. 18, 2024
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Coincidence
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Feb. 12, 2008
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Coincidence
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Feb. 12, 2008
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Tri07
Joe Beck, Santi Dibriano, Thierry Arpino
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Jan. 1, 2007
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Tri07
Joe Beck, Santi Dibriano, Thierry Arpino
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Jan. 1, 2007
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Beck & Zoller
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Released by Progressive on Apr. 20, 2023
Available in24-Bit/96 kHz Stereo -
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Get Me
Joe Beck, Peter Barshay, David Rokeach
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Apr. 29, 2014
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Finger Painting
Jazz Fusion & Jazz Rock - Released by Wavetone Records on Jan. 1, 1995
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Golden Earrings
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Aug. 1, 2013
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Golden Earrings
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on Aug. 1, 2013
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Mike Mainieri & Friends White Elephant
Jazz - Released by NYC Records on May 1, 1972
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What Is My Heart For
Jazz - Released by Whaling City Sound on May 13, 2003
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Songs for Singing
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Avant Garage on Jan. 1, 2007
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Your Will, My Life
Gospel - Released by Spring Hill Music Group (CHP) on Jan. 1, 2005
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
The Crazy One (feat. Joy Kolb)
Rock - Released by Scarlet and Skin Records on Jun. 28, 2024
Available in24-Bit/48 kHz Stereo