Bob Stewart (musician)

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Name = Bob Stewart

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Born = February 3, 1945
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Instrument = Tuba
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Genre = Jazz
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Bob Stewart is an American jazz tubist. He was born on February 3, 1945 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Citation | last =Wynn | first =Ron | year =1994 | title =All Music Guide to Jazz | place =San Francisco | publisher =Miller Freeman | page=602 | isbn =0879303085]

Stewart is a freelance concert artist, educator, and studio musician.cite web |url=http://www.bobstewartuba.com/ |title=Bob Stewart |accessdate=2008-06-01 |publisher=JazzCorner |format=Flash ] He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and his Masters in Education from Lehman College Graduate School. Stewart taught music in Pennsylvania public schools and at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. He is now a professor at the Juilliard School and is a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Lehman College.

Stewart has toured and recorded with such artists as Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, David Murray, Taj Mahal, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Arthur Blythe, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Haden, Lester Bowie and many others both in the United States, Europe and the Far East. In their review of Blythe's album "Lenox Avenue Breakdown", the editors of "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" called Stewart's title track solo "one of the few genuinely important tuba statements in jazz."cite book|last=Cook|first=Richard|authorlink=Richard Cook|coauthors=Brian Morton|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear=1992|edition=8th ed.|series=The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year=2006|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|language=English|isbn=0-141-02327-9|page=p. 139]

ee also

* "Escalator Over The Hill"

References

External links

* [http://www.iteaonline.org/journal.shtml Odyssey of a Tuba Jazz Master: Interview with Bob Stewart by Sérgio Carolino]
* [http://www.tubanews.com/articles/contentid-216.html Interview with Bob Stewart on Tuba News] , written by Sergio Carolino.
* [http://composers-classical-music.com/s/StewartBob.htm]
* [http://www.bobstewartuba.com Bob Stewart Official Website]