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Edgar Meyer & Mike Marshall :: listen For over twenty years bassist Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall have been at the vanguard of American instrumental string music and together and separately have helped create some of the most exciting music around today. While still a teenager Mike was performing and recording with the original David Grisman Quintet, Stephanie Grappelli, Tony Rice, Mark OÍConnor and Darol Anger. From there Mike went on to for the Montreux band and recorded several cds for the Windham Hill label This eventually led to his initial foray into classical music with his own Modern Mandolin Quartet. Mike has not been easy to pin down stylistically as can be proven by his recordings of Brazilian music as well as performances with Indian Tabla master Zakir Hussain. Never one to stay in one place for too long he has continued to reinvent himself musically and in the process created an amazing body of work. Edgar, a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant for 2002, is arguably the greatest classical bassist to ever pick up the instrument. His recordings with Yo Yo Ma and Mark O Connor have won two Grammies and his concertos for solo bass and orchestra have set a new standard for the bass literature. To hear Edgar perform the suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach is to witness the shear magnificence of the acoustic bass and all it's colors and dynamic range. Together these two musicians have recorded with Bela Fleck for the Sony Classical Label Uncommon Ritual and a cd with violinist Joshua Bell and mandolinist Sam Bush entitled Short Trip Home. The two present a lighthearted concert of adventurous music making with the kind of variety, beauty and range rarely seen. Go to artist website.