Bob Stewart (musician)
Bob Stewart (born February 3, 1945 in Sioux Falls , South Dakota ) is an American tuba player of creative jazz . Thanks to its perfect bass lines, B. Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy do without a bassist - Bowie always praised him as "the man who never stops". But Stewart also excels as a soloist on his instrument, who together with Howard Johnson made the tuba a part of contemporary jazz.
Live and act
Stewart had originally learned the trumpet, but from 1962–66 he also studied tuba at the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts . Then he worked in Philadelphia as a primary school teacher and played in old-time groups. In 1968 he moved to New York, where he founded the tuba ensemble Gravity with tuba player Howard Johnson . a. Taj Mahal ( The Real Thing 1971). In the next few years he played in the formations of Carla Bley , Charles Mingus , Gil Evans , Sam Rivers and in the Jazz Composer's Orchestra . He then worked with Dizzy Gillespie , McCoy Tyner , Muhal Richard Abrams and the Globe Unity Orchestra ; 1984 Lester Bowie brought him into his Brass Fantasy ; from 1986 he also worked for Henry Threadgill . After his first time at Lester Bowie, he founded his own mini brass band First Line with musicians from Bowie's Brass Fantasy . In 1991 he was involved in the David Murray album Big Band Conducted by Lawrence "Butch" Morris . In the 1990s he also worked in a quartet with Christof Lauer , Wolfgang Puschnig and Thomas Alkier ( Bluebells , 1992). Stewart, who continued to work as a teacher, presented a few but carefully conceived albums under his own name, including the debut First Line (1987), followed by Goin 'Home (1988) with his First Line Band and Then And Now . He has also worked on albums by Machito , Arthur Blythe ( Back to the Roots ), Bill Frisell , Gunter Hampel , Herb Robertson , Pharoah Sanders , Don Cherry , Bob Belden , Gebhard Ullmann and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra .
Film "Jazz On a Winters Day"
In 2006, Bob Stewart led a 4-day workshop with 25 brass musicians from traditional brass bands (mainly from Salzburg and Vienna) at the SNOWJAZZ Festival in the sawmill in Bad Hofgastein. The result of the workshop ended in a concert in the traditional Bad Gastein Congress Center in front of around 600 visitors. The filmmakers Sven Jansel and Gerald Lehner accompanied Bob Stewart during this workshop and documented this musical “Afro-Alpin experiment” in their 45-minute documentary “Jazz On a Winters Day”, which took place on March 16, 2007 in the Casino Bad Gastein celebrated its world premiere.
Discographic notes
- First Line ( Winter & Winter , 1987) with Stanton Davis , Steve Turre , Idris Muhammad , Arto Tunçboyacıyan
- Goin 'Home (Winter & Winter, 1988) with James Zollar , John Clark , Ed Blackwell
- Then & Now (Postcards Records, 1996) with Taj Majal , Carlos Ward , Steve Turre and Graham Haynes
- Heavy Metal Duo: Work Songs and Other Spirituals (2008) with Ray Anderson
Lexical entries
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
Web links
- Bob Stewart at Allmusic (English)
- Works by Bob Stewart in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stewart, Bob |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tuba player of creative jazz |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sioux Falls , South Dakota |