Short Trip Home is an album of classical chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 by a quartet unusual both for its membership and its instrumentation. Double bassist Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...

 wrote the majority of the compositions recorded on the album for a quartet of violin, double bass, mandolin, and guitar. Classically-trained violinist Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

 joins bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 musicians Sam Bush

Sam Bush

Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...

 and Mike Marshall and the versatile Meyer on the album. In addition to classical music in an American vernacular, the quartet occasionally breaks out on more traditional instrumental bluegrass tunes.

Track listing

1. "Short Trip Home" (Edgar Meyer)
2. "Hang Hang" (Meyer, Mike Marshall)
3. "BT" (Meyer)
4. "In the Nick of Time" (Meyer)
5. Concert Duo. Prequel (Meyer)
6. "BP" (Meyer)
7. "If I Knew" (Meyer)
8. "OK, All Right" (Meyer)
9. "Death by Triple Fiddle" (Meyer, Sam Bush, Marshall, Joshua Bell)
10. Concert Duo. 1 (all movements by Meyer)
11. Concert Duo. 2
12. Concert Duo. 3
13. Concert Duo. 4

Personnel

• Joshua Bell, violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Edgar Meyer, bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Sam Bush, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  ; violin on "Death by Triple Fiddle"
• Mike Marshall, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  ; mandola
  Mandola
  The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...
  
  on "BT"; violin on "Death by Triple Fiddle"