Christian McBride, Edgar Meyer – But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody? (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:14 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
The meeting of great minds usually happens behind closed doors, but for two of the world’s foremost bassists – Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer – the collaboration proved so fruitful that a duo album exploring their collective backgrounds in jazz, folk, classical, bluegrass and funk was born.
Read moreBéla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain – As We Speak (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:17 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Béla Fleck Productions
A new project from perception shattering musicians Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, and Rakesh Chaurasia, As We Speak brings together their unique takes on Indian and Western Classical music, Jazz and Bluegrass. Weaving a sonic tapestry of banjo, tabla, double bass, and bansuri, these artists convene to make some of the most soulful, fascinating and undefinable music found in today’s world.
Read moreViswa Mohan Bhatt, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer – Bourbon & Rosewater (1995) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:44 minutes | Full PNG Artwork | 1,9 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full PNG Artwork | 738 MB
Jerry Douglas (dobro) and Edgar Meyer (upright bass) are two of the finest musicians to come out of Nashville in recent years, with their roots in country/bluegrass and classical/jazz respectively. In this recording with V.M. Bhatt, they together explore commonalities and parallels between bluegrass and Hindustani music, proving that the High Lonesome ethos is universal.
Read moreYo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile – The Goat Rodeo Sessions (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:28 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
The Goat Rodeo Sessions is a groundbreaking project that brings together four string virtuosos: acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin-player Chris Thile. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile have collaborated in the past, producing the gold-selling album Songs of Joy and Peace. Each artist is a prominent figure in his own musical realm. They have come together as a unified quartet for this classical-bluegrass masterpiece. The music, which includes two tracks with vocalist Aoife O’Donovan, feels both new and familiar it’s composed and improvised, uptown and down home, funky and pastoral and above all, uniquely American. The album topped the Billboard Bluegrass charts and won two GRAMMY Awards.
Read moreYo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer – Bach Trios (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Nonesuch Records releases an album of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer, Bach Trios, on April 7, 2017. The album comprises works by J.S. Bach originally written for keyboard instruments, plus one sonata for viola da gamba. In 2011, Ma, Thile, and Meyer—along with Stuart Duncan—collaborated on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which won two Grammy Awards.
Read more