Bassist, composer, producer, and educator Paul Beaudry is a San Francisco native. Since relocating to New York City in 2001, Beaudry has toured worldwide as a sideman with jazz artists Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Allan Harris, Charenee Wade, Dee Daniels, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cynthia Scott, Camille Thurman 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, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Johnny O’Neal, Bruce Barth and Dave Valentine. He has toured in over 40 countries, played on over 50 commercially released recordings including a Grammy Award winning Stephen Colbert project and is the leader of the jazz quartet Paul Beaudry & Pathways. In 2010 his ensemble released its self-titled debut on Dancing Spirit Records. The band’s follow-up recording Americas was released by Soundkeeper Recordings in 2012. His 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. He has also been a bandleader for Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Jazz For Young People program performing music and jazz history workshops for public schools throughout NYC. In 2018 Beaudry released the recording New Tomorrows on Dancing Spirit Records featuring duets with guitarist, Adam Rafferty, on several of his original compositions and arrangements with strings. During the pandemic years of 2020-2023 he taught at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and restarted the Music program at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria to educate the next generation about music. In addition to continuing to perform and tour worldwide Beaudry has been on faculty at the Teachers College at Columbia University since 2006.
