Nicolas Meier Group

London-based Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier is one of the stars of a vibrant British jazz scene, his trademark sound is a mixture of Methenyesque jazz and spicy Turkish and world music rhythms.

Meier draws on a multitude of influences – jazz, flamenco, latin and middle-eastern music and all are passionately explored in a series of heartfelt acoustic modern jazz originals and represent part of Meier’s musical and personal world.

In 2006 Meier and his band won the prestigious Grand Prize of The Jury and 1st Prize Jazz Guitar at Jazz a Juan Revelations 2006, a competition open to the finest new jazz musicians and bands in Europe.

Writing in the Guardian, John Fordham described Meier as “…elegant in tone and bubbling with ideas… his originality as a writer, a player and a team leader dispatches any doubts” and described his debut album Orient as “a seductive balance of strong themes, inventive improvising and dynamic variety”.