16 Facts About Jeff Beal

Highly regarded as a jazz instrumentalist and versatile composer, Jeff Beal creates music that often incorporates a synthesis of improvisatory and composed elements.

Jeff Beal was born in Hayward, California, United States and began trumpet studies in the third grade after attending a school music assembly at Castro Valley's Marshall Elementary School with his father.

Jeff Beal's grandmother, Irene Jeff Beal, was an accomplished pianist, professional silent-movie accompanist, and fan of trumpeter Miles Davis.

Jeff Beal's gave Jeff a recording of Miles' collaboration with Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain.

Jeff Beal wrote his first long-form composition for the Oakland Youth Symphony Orchestra while a student at Castro Valley High School.

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OYSO conductor Kent Nagano had Jeff Beal combine his love of jazz improvisation with an orchestral accompaniment.

Jeff Beal went on to study composition and trumpet at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Music degree.

Jeff Beal married a fellow Eastman graduate, soprano Joan Jeff Beal, and the pair moved from Rochester to New York City.

At the request of Chick Corea, Jeff Beal composed and recorded a concerto for the virtuosic jazz bassist, John Patitucci, for Corea's Stretch Records label.

Jeff Beal has composed improvisatory concerti for Dave Samuels, Larry Coombs, and Turtle Island String Quartet.

Jeff Beal has since been nominated for nineteen primetime Emmy Awards, and has won five, His first statue was awarded in 2003 for his main theme to the USA Network detective series Monk.

Jeff Beal is noted for composing most of his music at his home, without assistants or orchestrators, playing most of the instruments himself.

Jeff Beal recently completed the score for Rodrigo Garcia's Raymond and Ray for which he composed and performed all of the jazz trumpet solos mimed by actor Ethan Hawke.

Jeff Beal has conducted his own music with a variety of orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the recording of the score to "Boston", a feature-length documentary on the history of the Boston Marathon the National Symphony Orchestra in House of Cards in Concert at the Kennedy Center, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performing Jeff Beal's new score for Buster Keaton's "The General".

Jeff Beal was commissioned by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra to compose a new song cycle for Grammy winner Hila Plittman in honor of Leonard Slatkin's fifty years with the Orchestra.

Jeff Beal disclosed that in 2007 he was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis.