Bill Elgart
William Spencer Elgart ( Billy Elgart ; born November 9, 1942 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American jazz drummer. He is characterized by his melodic drumming .
Live and act
Elgart studied at Berklee College of Music and was a student of Alan Dawson . In the 1960s he played a. a. with Carla Bley , Paul Bley , Marion Brown , Sam Rivers , Roswell Rudd , John Tchicai , Jack Walrath and Glenn Ferris . In 1966 he made his record debut Mr. Joy with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock .
In 1976 he came to Europe with Tom van der Geld and settled in Salzburg. As a member of van der Geld's band Children At Play, he worked on their albums Patience (1977) and Out Patients (1980). He also worked with musicians such as Erich Kleinschuster , Allan Praskin , Jürgen Seefelder and Peter Michael Hamel .
1986 Elgart moved to Ulm. He was a theater musician with the Munich Kammerspiele and has been teaching drums and ensemble playing at the University of Music in Würzburg since 1990 . In the early 1980s he founded the trio SunDial with Peter O'Mara and Wayne Darling , with whom he recorded four albums by 1990. In 1991 Elgart became a member of Sigi Finkel's band Camoa . He worked with Tomasz Stańko in a quartet under the direction of Vlatko Kucan .
He worked as a sideman on recordings by Marion Brown , Leszek Zadlo , Manfred Bründl , Kenny Wheeler , Carlo Mombelli , Charlie Mariano , Arrigo Cappelletti , Franco D'Andrea , Wolfgang Lackerschmidt , Claudio Fasoli , Sigi Finkel and Paolino Dalla Porta and on Tim's touring projects Berne , Barre Phillips , Eddie Gomez , Conny Bauer , Sheila Jordan , David Friedman and Matthias Schubert with. With Eric Watson and John Lindberg , he recorded the trio album The Fool School in 1992 . He also works regularly with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as well as in a duo with Thomas Zoller and with trombonist Günter Heinz .
Discography (selection)
- SunDial , 1985
- Illiad , 1986
- O'Mara-Darling-Elgart , 1987
- The Fool School , 1992
literature
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo non-fiction book , volume 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Works by and about Bill Elgart in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on the website of the University of Music Würzburg
- Bill Elgart at Allmusic (English)
- Bill Elgart - a drummer short documentation on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Wölfer: Jazz in Germany: the lexicon; all musicians and record companies from 1920 until today . Hannibal, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 , p. 92 (accessed February 26, 2015).
- ↑ Elgart . University of Music Würzburg; Retrieved February 26, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elgart, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elgart, William Spencer (full name); Elgart, Billy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , Massachusetts, United States |