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Adi Meyerson () is an American-Israeli jazz bassist, composer, and educator.
She was born in San Francisco, California, but grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Meyerson started playing the double bass after graduating from high school and moved to New York City in 2012. She graduated from The New School in 2014 and from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master of Music in 2020.
Meyerson released her debut album, Where We Stand and her sophomore album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She is the leader of Dark Matter, an acoustic quartet. She is an educator and teaches at the Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) and Jazz House Kids.
Meyerson has been praised by critics for her compositional skills and her stylistic versatility. She has synesthesia, a perceptual condition, which she incorporates into her compositions.
Meyerson moved to New York City in August 2012 to study at The New School. She was instructed by Ron Carter, Reggie Workman, Bob Cranshaw, Miguel Zenón, Jim McNeely, and Dave Liebman, among others. Meyerson graduated from The New School in 2014 and received a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in 2020., 2021|210x210px]]
Meyerson was the bassist of Works For Me, a Posi-Tone musical collective, which released the studio album, Reach Within, on January 6, 2020. She wrote three of the songs on the album.
Meyerson started writing her sophomore album in February 2020 and had applied for a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in October 2019 to finance the album. In 2020, she received money from the NYFA Women's Fund for the album. On August 6, 2021, she released, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life., 2021|213x213px]]Meyerson is the leader of Dark Matter, an acoustic quartet. The quartet formed in 2022 and has performed throughout the United States. In 2024, the quartet was a recipient of Chamber Music America's Performance Plus Grant. The quartet recorded their first album in 2024, which is set to release in 2025. Meyerson teaches at the JALC's Jazz for Young People program and at Jazz House Kids’ CHiCA Power Residency, a program that provides musical instruction for female musicians aged 12–18.
In 2017, she attended an art exhibition by Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese Visual arts. Her second album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, is inspired by Kusama's work. Meyerson says that the colors of Kusama's paintings were similar to the ones she experiences due to her synesthesia. Meyerson said, "I started using the pitch material, matching the colors to the notes." to compose the album.
During high school, Meyerson played Rock music and Jazz fusion on the bass guitar. Her influences include Sonny Rollins, Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Blanton, Ahmad Jamal, Israel Crosby, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Jimmy Garrison, George Duvivier, and Charles Mingus. She listened to Sonny Rollins' albums Sonny Rollins Plus 4, Saxophone Colossus, and Tenor Madness heavily at age 17. Meyerson stated, "I wanted to start playing upright. I knew I couldn't get the bass to sound on electric like what I heard the bass sound like on those recordings."
Trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, who performed on Where We Stand, said of Meyerson, "She a good pen for composition as well as covering all of the bases as far as bass playing is concerned".
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