- Billy Hart
:"For other uses, see
William Hart ".William "Billy" Hart (bornNovember 29 ,1940 ) is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history.Early on he performed in Washington, D.C. with soul artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave, and then later with Buck Hill and
Shirley Horn , and was a sideman with the Montgomery Brothers (1961), Jimmy Smith (1964-1966), andWes Montgomery (1966-1968). Following Montgomery’s death in 1968, Hart moved to New York, where he recorded withMcCoy Tyner ,Wayne Shorter , andJoe Zawinul , and played withEddie Harris ,Pharoah Sanders , andMarian McPartland .Hart was a member of
Herbie Hancock 's sextet (1969-1973), and played withMcCoy Tyner (1973-1974) andStan Getz (1974-1977), in addition to extensive freelance playing (including recording withMiles Davis on 1972'sOn the Corner ).Currently Billy Hart is one of the most in-demand jazz drummers and teachers alive. Since the early 1990’s Billy Hart has devoted a lot of time to teaching. He spends considerable time at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but he is also adjunct faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and Western Michigan University. He also teaches private lessons through The New School and New York University, and often contributes to the Stokes Forest Music Camp and the Dworp Summer Jazz Clinic in Belgium.
Hart is on over 600 records as a sideman.
His current group is a quartet with Mark Turner,
Ethan Iverson , andBen Street . An album of this band came out in August 2006 on theHighNote label.Hart resides in
Montclair, New Jersey . [ [http://www.nj.com/greatday/stories/more.html The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats] , "The Star-Ledger ",September 28 ,2004 ]References
External links
* [http://www.billyhartmusic.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:rmf6zfgheh7k Billy Hart] atAllmusic
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