Pete Oxley & Nicholas Meier

Pete Oxley & Nicholas Meier

Nicholas Meier Hailing originally from Switzerland, guitarist, composer and producer Meier is one of the rising stars in a vibrant British jazz scene, but his versatility and musical fluency extends well beyond that. For example rock guitar legend Jeff Beck has since Nicolas a mainstay in The Jeff Beck Group, taking him on two world tours during the course of the last several years.

With his unique style that is a blend of Metheny-esque jazz and Turkish inspired world music, Nick has also toured extensively around the world with his band the Meier Group, sharing the bill with some of the biggest names in jazz including Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau.

His recent album Kismet is a wonderful heady mixture of Flamenco, jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern music. His prodigious jazz talent is matched by his other great passion: playing heavy metal guitar in his scorching group ‘Seven7’.

Pete Oxley Pete began his musical career in Paris in the mid ‘80s before relocating to the UK in 1997. Shortly afterwards he opened The Spin jazz club in Oxford which, in 2012, won the Parliamentary jazz award as ‘The Best Jazz Venue In The UK’.

Pete regularly performs with some of the world’s leading jazz artists including Chris Garrick, Gilad Atzmon, Tim Whitehead, Dave O’Higgins, John Etheridge and his own band, Curious Paradise. He has now released 14 critically acclaimed CDs featuring his original compositions.

As a composer, Pete was selected as one of only a handful of British jazz musicians to have his compositions included in the definitive ‘European Real Book'.