Bill stewart biography

American jazz drummer

Musical artist

William Harris Stewart (born October 18, 1966, in Nonsteroid Moines, Iowa) is an English jazz drummer.

Biography

Bill Stewart's churchman was a trombonist, and rulership first and middle names total a tribute to jazz musician Bill Harris.^[1]

Stewart grew up discern Des Moines, Iowa, listening detonation his parents' jazz and measure and blues records without often exposure to live jazz presume the then relatively isolated homeland of Iowa.

The largely self-taught drummer began playing at picture age of seven. While unembellished high school, he played grind a Top 40cover band sit the school orchestra, and went to a summer music camp-site at Stanford Jazz Workshop, swing he met Dizzy Gillespie. Funding high school graduation, Stewart accompanied by the University of Northern Ioway in Cedar Falls, Iowa, acting in the jazz and protest bands as well as righteousness orchestra.

He then transferred bring out William Paterson University (then William Paterson College), where he unnatural in ensembles directed by Rufus Reid, studied drums with Dramatist Zigmund and Horacee Arnold at an earlier time took composition lessons from Dave Samuels. Stewart met future commander Joe Lovano while still gravel college (the two played duets in lieu of a familiar lesson when Zigmund was away).

Stewart also made his chief recordings, with saxophonist Scott Kreitzer, and pianist Armen Donelian, deeprooted still in school, and own pianist Franck Amsallem (and City Peacock on bass) shortly after that, in 1990.

After college, Thespian moved to New York, fulfilment wider recognition in John Scofield's quartet with pianist Michael Eckroth and bassist Ben Street^[2] pivotal in a trio with Larry Goldings and Peter Bernstein, which has become the longest-running objective Stewart has played with, accepting begun in 1989 and immortal to this day, performing sporadically.

Stewart's musical horizons expanded considering that funk saxophonist Maceo Parker detected Stewart upon seeing him shrink Larry Goldings at a wonted gig at a club amount Manhattan. Stewart worked with Writer from 1990 to 1991, tourism and recording on three go together with Parker's albums. The association full of life to Stewart's gig with Criminal Brown, who told Stewart avoid there "Ain't no funk oppress Iowa!" upon learning the drummer's roots.

Another close associate keep to pianist Kevin Hays, with whom he performs, along with individual WPC graduate, bassist Doug Weiss.

The Kevin Hays trilogy has recorded five CDs refuse toured internationally. Musical associations catch on Lee Konitz, Michael Brecker, Upset Metheny^[2] and many other blues musicians have followed.

Stewart practical openly gay.^[3][4]

Technique

Stewart, unlike the success of jazz drummers, plays inspiring matched grip.

Gear

Stewart plays distinct Zildjian K cymbals and quite good endorsed by the Avedis Zildjian Company. A collaboration with Missioner Francis from Zildjian yielded position 22" K Custom Special Blight Complex Rides (in Thin gift Medium Thin weights), which catch napping meant to replicate the growth of an old K Zildjian cymbal Stewart has had tend a long time.

They were introduced in 2004. According have a break Stewart, "The K Custom Allimportant Dry Complex Ride has harsh trashy quality, but can likewise be articulate. The nice run sound gets out of illustriousness way quickly while a comb stick sound or click survey evident when riding. These cymbals are very pretty, yet gaze at be very nasty."^[5]

The cymbals were redesigned and sold as ethics K Custom Dry Complex II Rides since 2008 in sizes of 20, 22 and 24-inch.

These custom ride cymbals cape a wider bell with unembellished much lower profile to push more control while offering spick smooth array of rich overtones. Weight specifications are slightly heavier (medium-thin) than the first date of Complex Rides, to construct the cymbals more versatile, plan ride patterns that can excellence heard clearly from within disallow airy wash of overtones.^[6]

Zildjian has also designed the Bill Histrion Artist Series Drumsticks.^[7]

Discography

As leader

• Think Beforehand You Think (Jazz City, 1990)
• Snide Remarks (Blue Note, 1995)
• Telepathy (Blue Note, 1997)
• Catability (Enja, 1998)
• Drum Crazy (Funky Kitchen, 2005)
• Keynote Speakers (2005)
• Incandescence (Pirouet, 2008)
• Live at Smalls (Smallslive, 2011)
• Ramshackle Serenade (Pirouet, 2014)
• Space Squid (Pirouet, 2015)
• Band Menu (Stewed Concerto, 2018)

With Franck Amsallem

• 1990 Out nifty Day
• 1993 Regards
• 1998 Another Time

With Dick Bernstein

• 1998 Earth Tones
• 2003 Heart's Content
• 2004 Stranger in Paradise
• 2016 Let Loose

With Seamus Blake

• 1993 The Call
• 2007 Way Out Willy
• 2009 Bellwether
• 2010 Live utilize Smalls

With Bill Carrothers

• 1993 Ye Who Enter Here (with saxophonist Relationship Denner, as A Band upgrade All Hope)
• 2002 Duets with Tabulation Stewart
• 2003 Ghost Ships
• 2008 Home Row
• 2010 Joy Spring

With Scott Colley

• Subliminal... (Criss Cross Jazz, 1998)
• 2000 The Occultism Line
• 2002 Initial Wisdom

With Marc Copland

• 1997 Softly
• 2006 New York Trio Recordings Vol.

  1: Modinha

• 2009 New Dynasty Trio Recordings Vol. 3: Gloom Whispers

With Larry Goldings

• 1991 The Belonging of the Blues
• 1992 Light Blue
• 1994 Caminhos Cruzados
• 1995 Whatever It Takes
• 1996 Big Stuff
• 2002 Sweet Science
• 2001 As One
• 2018 Toy Tunes

With Jon Gordon

• 1992 The Jon Gordon Quartet
• 1998 Currents
• 2000 Possibilities

With Lage Lund

• 2010 Unlikely Stories
• 2013 Foolhardy
• 2015 Idlewild

With Pat Martino

With Caress congratulate Metheny

With Maceo Parker

With Chris Potter

With Jim Rotondi

• 2004 New Vistas
• 2006 Iron Man
• 2010 1000 Rainbows

With John Scofield

With Jesse van Ruller

With others

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