Adi Meyerson Explained

Background:person
Birth Date:26 January 1991
Birth Place:San Francisco, California, US
Origin:Jerusalem, Israel
Instrument:Double Bass
Years Active:2016-present
Current Member Of:Dark Matter, Little Kruta

Adi Meyerson (born January 26, 1991) is an American-Israeli jazz bassist, composer, and educator.

She was born in San Francisco, California, but grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Meyerson started playing the double bass after graduating from high school and moved to New York City in 2012. She graduated from The New School in 2014 and from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master of Music in 2020.

Meyerson has performed at multiple jazz clubs in New York City. She is an educator and teaches at the Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) and Jazz House Kids.

She released her debut album, Where We Stand and her sophomore album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She is the leader of Dark Matter, an acoustic quartet.

Meyerson cites jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins as one of her greatest influences. She has synesthesia, a perceptual condition, which she incorporates into her compositions. Meyerson has been praised by critics for her compositional skills and her stylistic versatility.

Early life and education

Adi Meyerson was born on January 26, 1991, in San Francisco. At the age of two, Meyerson and her family moved to Jerusalem.[1] [2] She started playing the electric bass guitar in high school at 14.

After high school, Meyerson began playing the double bass. She was accepted to a joint program between the Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School, a private university in Greenwich Village, New York City.[3]

She moved to New York City in August 2012 to study at The New School. She was instructed by Reggie Workman, Bob Cranshaw, Miguel Zenón, Jim McNeely, and Dave Leibman, among others. During her education, she took private lessons with double bassist Ron Carter. Meyerson graduated from The New School in 2014[4] and received a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in 2020.[5] [6]

Career

Since moving to New York City, Meyerson has performed at multiple jazz clubs including Smoke Jazz, Minton's, Smalls and Jazz Standard. She has played onstage with Joel Frahm, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Nelson, Charli Persip, and Champion Fulton.

Meyerson recorded her debut album, Where We Stand, in September 2017. She enlisted 5 musicians for the album, including saxophonist Joel Frahm and guitarist Camilla Meza. The album released on June 5, 2018.[7]

Meyerson was the bassist of Works For Me, a Posi-Tone musical collective, which released the studio album, Reach Within, on January 6, 2020. She wrote three of the songs on the album.[8]

Meyerson started writing her sophomore album in February 2020 and had applied for a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in October 2019 to finance the album. In 2020, she received money from the NYFA Women's Fund for the album. On August 6, 2021, she released, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life.[9] Meyerson is the leader of Dark Matter, an acoustic quartet.[10] [11] The quartet formed in 2022 and has performed throughout the United States.[12] In 2024, the quartet was a receipient of Chamber Music America's Performance Plus Grant.[13] The quartet recorded their first album in 2024, which is set to release in 2025.

Meyerson teaches at the JALC's Jazz for Young People program and at Jazz House Kids’ CHiCA Power Residency, a program that provides musical instruction for female musicians aged 12-18.

Style and influences

All About Jazz reviewer Jerome Wilson wrote that on Meyerson's debut album, "Most of the tracks have the feel of a hard-blowing '60s jazz combo", and that Meyerson "can compose strong, memorable tunes both in the mainstream jazz style and in more open, progressive formats."[14] Tony Benjamin of Jazzwise noted that Meyerson's second album has "an upbeat and affirmative tone to her music, both in style and content."[15]

In 2017, she attended an art exhibition by Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese visual artist. Her second album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, is inspired by Kusama's work. Meyerson says that the colors of Kusama's paintings were similar to the ones she experiences due to her synesthesia. Meyerson said, "I started using the pitch material, matching the colors to the notes." to compose the album.[16]

During high school, Meyerson played rock and fusion on the bass guitar. Her influences include Sonny Rollins, Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Blanton, Ahmad Jamal, Israel Crosby, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Jimmy Garrison, George Duvivier, and Charles Mingus. She listened to Sonny Rollins' albums Sonny Rollins Plus 4, Saxophone Colossus, and Tenor Madness heavily at age 17.[17] Meyerson stated, "I wanted to start playing upright. I knew I couldn't get the bass to sound on electric like what I heard the bass sound like on those recordings."

Trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, who performed on Where We Stand, said of Meyerson, "[She has] a good pen for composition as well as covering all of the bases as far as bass playing is concerned".

Discography

As leader

As member

With Little Kruta

As guest

With Pressure Fit

With Works For Me

With others

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: February 4, 2023 . Adi Meyerson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20241003212658/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/adi-meyerson . October 3, 2024 . October 3, 2024 . All About Jazz.
  2. Web site: Bio . October 7, 2024 . Adi Meyerson.
  3. News: October 31, 2022 . Rising Star: Bassist Adi Meyerson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521200045/https://njjs.org/2022/10/31/rising-star-bassist-adi-meyerson/ . May 21, 2024 . October 5, 2024 . New Jersey Jazz Society.
  4. Web site: Adi Meyerson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240717131318/https://stanfordjazz.org/more-info/faculty-adi-meyerson/ . July 17, 2024 . October 5, 2024 . Stanford Jazz Workshop.
  5. Web site: Adi Meyerson . October 6, 2024 . The Kennedy Center.
  6. Web site: January 15, 2020 . MSM Spotlight: Luke Paulino and Adi Meyerson . October 13, 2024 . Manhattan School of Music.
  7. News: Lorge . Suzanne . October 16, 2018 . Bassist Adi Meyerson's Poise and Presence . October 16, 2018 . DownBeat.
  8. News: Freeman . Phil . 2020 . Reach Within Works For Me (Posi-Tone) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240717212742/https://nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr202003.pdf . July 17, 2024 . October 18, 2024 . . 14.
  9. Web site: 2020 Recipients . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240419021806/https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/nyc-womens-fund-for-media-music-and-theatre/2020-recipients/ . April 19, 2024 . October 5, 2024 . New York Foundation for the Arts.
  10. Web site: ADI MEYERSON'S DARK MATTER / EMILY KUHN QUINTET . October 10, 2024 . Stanford Jazz Workshop.
  11. Web site: SJW Presents: Adi Meyerson's Dark Matter/Emily Kuhn Quintet . October 10, 2024 . Stanford Department of Music.
  12. Web site: Shows . October 17, 2024 . Monks.
  13. Web site: March 27, 2024 . The 2024 Performance Plus Grantees Announced . October 17, 2024 . Chamber Music America.
  14. Web site: Wilson . Jerome . July 23, 2018 . Adi Meyerson: Where We Stand . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230127004713/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/where-we-stand-adi-meyerson-self-produced-review-by-jerome-wilson . January 27, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . All About Jazz.
  15. Web site: Benjamin . Tony . Adi Meyerson: I Want To Sing My Heart Out In Praise of Life . October 7, 2024 . Jazzwise.
  16. News: December 10, 2021 . Adi Meyerson on taking inspiration from avant garde artist Yayoi Kusama and processing synesthesia through bass . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240525055141/https://www.guitarworld.com/features/adi-meyerson-i-want-to-sing-my-heart-out-in-praise-of-life . May 25, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Guitar World.
  17. News: Johnson . Kevin . July 12, 2018 . Where We Stand: An Interview with Adi Meyerson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211028020705/https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2018/07/12/where-we-stand-an-interview-with-adi-meyerson/ . October 28, 2021 . October 8, 2024 . No Treble.
  18. Web site: Meyerson . Adi . June 5, 2018 . Where We Stand . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220712113708/https://adimeyerson.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-stand . July 12, 2022 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  19. Web site: Meyerson . Adi . August 6, 2021 . I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise Of Life . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230914011313/https://adimeyerson.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-sing-my-heart-out-in-praise-of-life . September 14, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  20. Web site: June 19, 2019 . One . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220629142201/https://littlekruta.bandcamp.com/track/one . June 29, 2022 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  21. Web site: October 25, 2019 . Justice . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240621040808/https://littlekruta.bandcamp.com/album/justice . June 21, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  22. Web site: September 18, 2021 . Faouzia's 'Hero' with an Orchestral twist . October 8, 2024 . Little Kruta.
  23. Web site: July 8, 2020 . Sticky . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210708160016/https://pressurefit.bandcamp.com/track/sticky . July 8, 2021 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  24. Web site: Chapman . Reginald . November 3, 2022 . East Williamsburg Sessions . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240724153029/https://freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/east-williamsburg-sessions . July 24, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  25. Web site: January 3, 2020 . Reach Within . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230610015639/https://worksforme.bandcamp.com/album/reach-within . Jun 10, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  26. Web site: May 8, 2020 . Works For Me - Send One Your Love . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230711052108/https://positone.bandcamp.com/track/send-one-your-love . July 11, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  27. Web site: Söderlund . Shannon . July 15, 2016 . The Magic . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  28. Web site: Fulton . Champian . March 17, 2017 . Speechless . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230423020218/https://champianfultonpiano.bandcamp.com/album/speechless . April 23, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  29. Web site: September 17, 2020 . You Go To My Head (Pressure Fit's Stro Elliot Remix Cover) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240727064333/https://freshselects.bandcamp.com/track/you-go-to-my-head-pressure-fits-stro-elliot-remix-cover . July 27, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bancamp.
  30. Web site: October 9, 2020 . Demisexual Lovelace . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20241003074735/https://fielded.bandcamp.com/album/demisexual-lovelace . October 3, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  31. Web site: January 8, 2021 . New Sounds . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231224101104/https://newfacesjazz.bandcamp.com/album/new-sounds . December 24, 2023 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  32. Web site: Krol . Jeff . January 28, 2022 . Live at Scholes Street . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220514000519/https://jeffkrol.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-scholes-street . May 14, 2022 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  33. Web site: Aerts . Vivienne . March 3, 2023 . Typuhthâng . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240301020722/https://vivienne.bandcamp.com/album/typuhth-ng . March 1, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  34. Web site: Morris . Willie . August 18, 2023 . Conversation Starter . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240706074109/https://williemorrisjazz.bandcamp.com/album/conversation-starter . July 6, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  35. Web site: August 25, 2023 . Shorter Moments - Citizen Wayne . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521234742/https://positone.bandcamp.com/album/shorter-moments-citizen-wayne . May 21, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . October 7, 2024.
  36. Web site: September 29, 2023 . We Buy Diabetic Test Strips . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240930171058/https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/we-buy-diabetic-test-strips . September 30, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.
  37. Web site: March 29, 2024 . Money Has No Owners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240617213743/https://chongwizard.bandcamp.com/album/money-has-no-owners . June 17, 2024 . October 7, 2024 . Bandcamp.

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