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BLP sources|date=December 2011Infobox musical artist| name = Mindi Abair| image = Mindi Abair - Jazz Alley - Seattle - 2011.jpg| caption = Mindi Abair performing at Jazz Alley in Seattle, Washington on January 10, 2011| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Mindi Abair| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1969|5|23|mf=y| origin =| instrument = Vocals , saxophone , Keyboard instrument|keyboard , flute | genre = Smooth jazz , contemporary jazz , Pop music|pop , Soul music|soul | occupation = Saxophonist , vocalist , keyboardist , flutist , composer , radio host , band leader| years_active =| label = Heads Up International|Heads Up , Concord Music Group , Verve Records|Verve | associated_acts =| website = URL| http://www.mindiabair.com/| notable_instruments = Selmer Mark VI|Selmer Mark VI Saxophone Mindi Abair (born May 23, 1969 in St. Petersburg, Florida ) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 pop music background. Mindi has toured and/or recorded with the Backstreet Boys , Duran Duran , Mandy Moore , Josh Groban , Adam Sandler , Keb' Mo' , Lalah Hathaway , Lee Ritenour , Teena Marie , John Tesh , Bobby Lyle , Jonathan Butler , Peter White (musician)|Peter White and Rick Braun .
In 1999 she independently released a pop album, Always and Never the Same. cite web|url= http://www.jazzmonthly.com/artist_ag/abair_mindi_08/interviews/abair_mindi_index.html|title=Jazz Monthly Feature Interview: Mindi Abair|author=Baldwin "Smitty" Smith|date=May 2008|accessdate=16 September 2009|work=JazzMonthly.com

In 2003, Abair moved from pop music|pop to jazz. She signed to Verve Records and released the album It Just Happens That Way , which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chartcite web|url= http://www.billboard.com/album/mindi-abair/stars/1117395#/album/mindi-abair/it-just-happens-that-way/564946|title=It Just Happens That Way|work=Billboard.com|accessdate=September 17, 2009 and remained in the Top 10 for 19 consecutive weeks.Citation needed|date=September 2009 Billboard magazine named It Just Happens That Way one of the top 10 Contemporary Jazz CDs of the year.Citation needed|date=September 2009 Her hit single “Lucy’s,” was #1 on R& RClarify|date=September 2009 for a record-breaking eight weeks. Her 2004 release Come As You Are peaked at #9 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts.cite web|url= http://www.billboard.com/album/mindi-abair/stars/1117395#/album/mindi-abair/come-as-you-are/647262|title=Come as you Are|work=Billboard.com|accessdate=September 17, 2009 Her 2006 release Life Less Ordinary peaked at #2 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chartcite web|url= http://www.billboard.com/album/mindi-abair/stars/1117395#/album/mindi-abair/life-less-ordinary/764181|title=Life Less Ordinary|work=Billboard.com|accessdate=September 2009 and remained in the top 20 for 45 weeks.Citation needed|date=September 2009 Her songs "True Blue" and "Bloom" hit #1 on R& R. Citation needed|date=December 2011 She signed to Concord Records in 2007, and her latest 2008 release Stars broke the usual genre barriers, with her single “Stars” (written and produced by Matthew Hager ) charting #29 Adult Contemporary R& R simultaneously with her single “Smile” hitting top ten on the R& R jazz airplay charts.Citation needed|date=September 2009
In 2010, Abair released a CD called "In Hi-Fi Stereo," produced by Rex Rideout.cite web|url= http://jazztimes.com/articles/26155-in-hi-fi-stereo-mindi-abair|title=In Hi Fi Stereo - Mindi Abair|author=Brian Soergel|publisher= JazzTimes |date=June 2010

Abair also plays the flute and keyboard and sings, and she has hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Chill with Mindi Abair since 2007, which focuses on chill out music .cite web|url= http://www.chillwithmindiabair.com/|title=Chill with Mindi Abair

Since April 23, 2005, she has been married to guitarist Jason Steele. http://www.smoothvibes.com/movabletype/archives/000355.html Mindi Abair To Be Married In April

Early life


Mindi Abair was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and spent much of her early life on the road with her father’s band, The Entertainers. She came from musical roots. Her father, Lance Abair, played saxophone and keyboards, and her grandmother Virginia Rice was an opera singer, piano and vocal instructor. She started playing the piano at age five, and started playing alto saxophone at the age of 8 when her elementary school band instructor laid out instruments on the first day of band class and instructed each student to pick the instrument they most wanted to play. She acted as drum major of her high school marching band her junior and senior years of high school. And as a senior in high school, she auditioned and won the 1st chair alto saxophone for the Florida All-State Jazz Band. Mindi spent her first year of college on a full scholarship at the University of North Florida , a jazz program started by Rich Matteson ( North Texas State University ). She then transferred to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she attended on scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Woodwind Performance. During her years at Berklee, Mindi studied with Joe Viola and George Garzone on saxophone. She formed her first band in college.

Early career


After graduation from Berklee College of Music in 1991, Mindi moved to Los Angeles, where she began booking her band into clubs, coffee shops and hotels. She played solo on the street at 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica and garnered the attention of jazz keyboardist Bobby Lyle , who hired her to record on his “Power of Touch” CD and tour with him. Her touring possibilities expanded over the next decade, as she toured as a saxophonist/singer and keyboardist with Adam Sandler , John Tesh , Jonathan Butler , Teena Marie , Rick Braun , and Bobby Lyle .
She was featured on saxophone in the Go West (band)|Go West video “Tell Me”. And in 1996, on Adam Sandler’s HBO Special, and recorded on his platinum CD “What’s Your Name? ” playing the saxophone solo on “The Lonesome Kicker” and singing on various tracks.
In 1999, Mindi joined the Backstreet Boys for their Millennium World Tour, and spent the next year and a half as their saxophonist, keyboardist and percussionist. She put together Mandy Moore ’s first band, and acted as musical director, keyboardist, background singer and percussionist for many of her first television appearances and shows.
On her off time from touring, Mindi released her first complete solo record “Always and Never the Same” independently.

American Idol


Mindi has been featured on the 2011 American Idol season as a soloist with Paul McDonald (musician)|Paul McDonald and Casey Abrams and playing behind contestants Jacob Lusk and Haley Reinhart . Steven Tyler remarked to Paul McDonald after her debut on the show “Forget you, who’s your sax player? ” http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/422476/who-was-that-mystery-sax-player-on-idol-last-night/ Who Was That Mystery Sax Player On 'Idol' Last Night?

Discography


  • Always and Never the Same (1999)

  • It Just Happens That Way (2003)

  • ''I Can't Wait for Christmas (2004)

  • Come As You Are (2005)

  • Life Less Ordinary (2007)

  • A Peter White Christmas with Mindi Abair and Rick Braun (2007)

  • Stars (2008)

  • In Hi-Fi Stereo (2010)


  • References


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    External links


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  • http://www.mindiabair.com/ Official website

  • http://www.chillwithmindiabair.com/ Chill With Mindi Abair website

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hager

  • http://www.smoothjazznotes.com/abair0710.html Smooth Jazz Notes Interview and Photos of Mindi Abair


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