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Studio and session guitarist Joe Beck was well known for hits when backing vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:0WZ7IgzdjPvwFdjDjjuZm7">Esther Phillips</a> on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kudu%22">Kudu</a> in the '70s, although his session credentials over the years also included the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:0kbYTNQb4Pb1rPbbaF0pT4">Miles Davis</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7GaxyUddsPok8BuhxN6OUW">James Brown</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2CvCyf1gEVhI0mX6aFXmVI">Paul Simon</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1Mxqyy3pSjf8kZZL4QVxS0">Frank Sinatra</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7g9DeYASD3RzlT4kDchsQZ">Gil Evans</a>. During the '80s he made a series of competent fusion and pop-jazz recordings for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22DMP%22">DMP</a> and had a big hit recording with <a href="spotify:artist:7vNcTk9TgKF0qDsS87nWGE">Dave Sanborn</a> on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22CTI%22">CTI</a> in 1975. His career continued into the '90s and beyond with albums like 1991's Relaxin', 1997's Alto, and his 2000 collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:1oTIG44ppYw0nUBqFvZ5Q5">Jimmy Bruno</a>, 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 <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Whaling+City+Sound%22">Whaling City Sound</a>, such as 2002's Just Friends, 2007's Tri07, 2008's Coincidence (a duo recording with <a href="spotify:artist:1OCdpTg8d7Ehpj8B9j4iqa">John Abercrombie</a>), and 2009's Golden Earrings. The latter album, featuring Beck and singer <a href="spotify:artist:5t3gRoxwEqHU1dKyRrVe6C">Laura Theodore</a> performing music made famous by singer <a href="spotify:artist:602DnpaSXJB4b9DZrvxbDc">Peggy Lee</a>, 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. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi
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