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Paul Meyers “World on a String” Jazz Trio: Labor Day at Weatherwatch Farm

Paul Meyers is one of the most admired jazz guitarists active today. His classical guitar artistry finds him equally at home performing musical styles ranging from Bossa Nova to Be-Bop to Bartok – all played with impeccable technique and true passion. His fluid style and lyricism as both virtuoso guitarist-improviser and composer-arranger have won him praise and respect from colleagues, aficionados, and the media.

Paul Meyers has been a busy freelancer, sideman, and bandleader in and around New York City

since 1980. An eloquent and versatile improviser, Meyers’s list of credits reads like a Who’s Who in Jazz. He has been heard with an extraordinary range of jazz greats, including performances and recordings with: Geri Allen, Harry Allen, Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Ron Carter, Ray Drummond, Eliane Elias, Clare Fischer, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Gomez, Annie Ross, Wynton Marsalis, Bill Mays, Rufus Reid, Frank Wess, and Steve Wilson.

A gifted composer and arranger, evolving from the vast jazz repertoire he has studied and performed over four decades, Meyers takes the listener to a much advanced, fresh place of creativity, stretching traditional boundaries while never losing the basic song form or joy. His harmonic structures are new and often unexpected and open a new world of chord voicings and usages.

“World on a String” is a project for which Paul has been composing for several years. Leo Traversa on bass and Vanderlei Pereira on drums – a pair of dynamic musicians active in the New York City jazz scene – partner Paul on nylon string guitar to perform his originals and arrangements. Music that fuses jazz tradition with rhythms and concepts from Brazilian and Latin, folk, classical music and beyond is Paul’s personal version of jazz with a world music perspective-all with a swinging, grooving foundation.

“World on a String” performs at Weatherwatch Farm in Saranac on Labor Day: Sunday, September 5 at 3:00 pm. Admission $20 at the door. Current public health guidelines will be followed. Further info: telephone 518-293-7613, e-mail ambrown.hillholl@gmail.com or visit www.hillandhollowmusic.org

“…one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists since Kenny Burrell…” The New York Times

“Meyers is clearly one of the best guitarists and composers around” allaboutjazz.com

“One of the great things about NYC’s jazz scene is the presence of musicians like Paul Meyers-so

consistently satisfying that we sometimes take his greatness for granted!” Highlights in Jazz