Bassist, composer, producer, and educator Paul Beaudry is a San Francisco native now residing in New York City. Since relocating to New York in early 2001, Beaudry has toured worldwide as a sideman with Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Allan Harris, Charenee Wade, Dee Daniels, Wynard Harper and Eric Lewis and also performed in concerts or on recordings with such jazz greats as Clark Terry, Grady Tate, Jimmy Cobb, Charlie Persip, Frank Wess, Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Johnny O’Neal, Cynthia Scott, Bruce Barth and Dave Valentine. He has toured in over 35 countries, played on over 50 commercially released 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 on Dancing Spirit Records and its follow up release Americas on Soundkeeper Recordings in 2012. The group has done several tours for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as U.S. cultural jazz ambassadors giving concerts and workshops to diverse audiences of all ages. In 2018 Beaudry released his long-awaited New Tomorrows recording featuring guitarist, Adam Rafferty, also on Dancing Spirit Records. The project contains many of his original compositions and arrangements with strings. Beaudry 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.