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Edgar Meyer
Background information
Born
(1960-11-24) November 24, 1960 (age 63)
Origin
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Genres
Classical
bluegrass
progressive bluegrass
jazz
world music
Occupation(s)
Musician
composer
Instrument(s)
Double bass
Labels
Sony
Deutsche Grammophon
Sugar Hill
Website
edgarmeyer.com
Musical artist
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated ten times.[1]
Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's "house band" super group, along with Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, and Bryan Sutton. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Christian McBride, and Emanuel Ax.
EdgarMeyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won seven...
every part. In 2008, Thile released a collaboration album with bassist EdgarMeyer, and he also plans to release a collaborative album with Hilary Hahn...
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Trip Home" (EdgarMeyer) "Hang Hang" (Meyer, Mike Marshall) "BT" (Meyer) "In the Nick of Time" (Meyer) Concert Duo. Prequel (Meyer) "BP" (Meyer) "If I Knew"...
Rodeo Sessions is a 2011 collaborative album by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, EdgarMeyer and Chris Thile, featuring Aoife O'Donovan. The album won the 2013 Grammy...
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Barenberg moved to Nashville, where he has played often with Jerry Douglas, EdgarMeyer and Maura O'Connell, and done much work as a session musician with Béla...
features guest appearances from Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, EdgarMeyer, Bryan Sutton, Billy Strings, Chris Thile, Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull...
and EdgarMeyer. The album is progressive bluegrass with jazz inflections, but also adds elements from classical music. O'Connor, Fleck, and Meyer further...
several composers have written works for her, including concerti by EdgarMeyer and Jennifer Higdon, partitas by Antón García Abril, two serenades for...
Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944. The classical bassist EdgarMeyer has frequently branched out into newgrass, old-time, jazz, and other...
later. In 1989, Bush and Fleck joined Mark O'Connor, Jerry Douglas, and EdgarMeyer in an all-star bluegrass band, Strength in Numbers, at the Telluride...
Year 2017. Chaurasia has played and toured extensively with Béla Fleck, EdgarMeyer, and Zakir Hussain (musician), and was featured on Fleck's album As We...
album from the trio of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, double-bassist and composer EdgarMeyer, and fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor. Sony Classical released the...
Journey is the second album from the string trio of bassist and composer EdgarMeyer, fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. James Taylor...
Album EdgarMeyer (producer), Robert Battaglia (engineer), Béla Fleck (producer & artist), Joshua Bell, Evelyn Glennie, Gary Hoffman, EdgarMeyer, Chris...
Reid, composer (Rufus Reid) "Tarnation" EdgarMeyer and Chris Thile, composers (Chris Thile and EdgarMeyer) Best Arrangement, Instrumental or a Cappella...
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