Paul Beaudry

Paul Beaudry is a bassist, composer, and educator who leads the New York quartet Paul Beaudry & Pathways, a group chosen for international tours as cultural ambassadors under the Rhythm Road program co-sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department. A San Francisco native, he relocated to New York in 2001 and worked as a sideman with Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Allan Harris, and Charenee Wade, and has performed alongside Clark Terry, Grady Tate, and Roy Hargrove. Pathways released its self-titled debut in 2010 on Dancing Spirit Records and followed it with Americas in 2012, and Beaudry recorded New Tomorrows in 2018, a program of guitar and bass duets with Adam Rafferty. He has appeared on more than 50 commercially released recordings, including the Grammy-winning A Colbert Christmas. He studied composition at Berklee College of Music and jazz performance at Queens College, and teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University.