contemporary jazz

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. His styles include bluegrass, newgrass, jazz, and classical. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger.
Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.

Cyrus Chestnut born on January 17, 1963, in Baltimore, Maryland; son of McDonald (a retired post office employee and church organist) and Flossie (a city social services worker and church choir director). Chestnut started his musical career at the age of six, playing piano at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in hometown. By age nine, he was studying classical music at Peabody Institute. In 1985, Chestnut earned a degree in jazz composition and arranging from Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music.

The name "Paul Taylor" is used for (at least) three different artists: (1) Paul Taylor - Jazz Musician Expanding upon the sensuous and romantic smooth jazz vibe that has made him one of the genre’s most dynamic saxophonists, Paul Taylor makes his fourth Peak Records release a true Ladies’ Choice; creating his most soulful instrumental tracks ever and keeping company with three of today’s most acclaimed female R&B vocalists—Regina Belle, La Toya London and Terry Dexter.

Trumpeter/composer from London, living now in Berlin, Tom has been at the heart of the F-IRE Collective and the Not Applicable Artists, and in addition to his own projects has played and recorded with artists such as John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, John Surman, John Hollenbeck, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Icarus, Max de Wardener, Stéphane Payen, Nicolas Masson, Seb Rochford and more... Tom's main projects are currently the trio Arthurs.Høiby.Ritchie with Jasper Høiby (bass) and Stuart Ritchie (drums), and the duo with Richard Fairhurst (piano).