Edgar Meyer
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"Edgar Meyer" is an American double bass/bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His styles include classical, Bluegrass music/bluegrass, Progressive bluegrass/newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, Tennessee/Nashville, part of various Chamber music/chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain (musician)/Zakir Hussain, Sam Bush, James Taylor, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall (musician)/Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and the trio Nickel Creek.

Meyer participates yearly in a bluegrass Supergroup (music)/super group in Telluride, Colorado, at their annual Bluegrass Festival known as the House Band. The band also consists of Meyer's contemporaries Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and Stuart Duncan.

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The music writes itself ... You imagine each person kind of doing what they do and then you just try to stay out of the way.

There are some classical pieces written . . . that are very boring. I've always had a strong urge to have my own voice, to express something. . . . A concerto was kind of a natural.