Edgar Meyer

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Start with Appalachia Waltz (1996) album, With Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor

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Edgar Meyer is an American double bassist and composer born November 24, 1960, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who learned the instrument under his father. Hailed by The New Yorker as the most remarkable virtuoso in the history of his instrument, he is the only bassist to win both the Avery Fisher Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship, and has won multiple Grammy Awards. He works across classical, bluegrass, newgrass and jazz, collaborating with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell

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