Bassist, composer, producer, and educator Paul Beaudry is a San Francisco native based in New York City since 2001. Beaudry has toured worldwide as a sideman with Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Allan Harris, Charenée Wade, Dee Daniels, and Eric Lewis and also performed in concerts or on recordings with such jazz greats as Clark Terry, Grady Tate, Jimmy Cobb, Frank Wess, Cecil Bridgewater, Eddie Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Johnny O’Neal, Eric Alexander, Cynthia Scott, and Bruce Barth. He has toured in over 35 countries, played on over 50 recordings including a Grammy-Award winning Stephen Colbert project and is the leader of the quartet Paul Beaudry & Pathways. In 2010 his ensemble released its self- titled debut and its follow-up release, Americas, in 2012. The group has done several tours including for the U.S. State Department as U.S. cultural jazz ambassadors giving concerts and workshops to diverse audiences of all ages. In 2018 Beaudry released New Tomorrows, a recording featuring many of his original compositions and arrangements with strings. Beaudry remains an active performer, educator, and is also currently a bandleader for Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Jazz For Young People program and serves on faculty at the Teachers College at Columbia University.