Billy Hart

Billy Hart
Billy Hart
	Hart performing in 1978
Background information
Born	November 29, 1940; Washington, D.C., U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Drums
Labels	Horizon, Gramavision, Arabesque, HighNote, Enja, SteepleChase, ECM
Associated acts	Herbie Hancock, The Cookers
Website	www.billyhartmusic.com

Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drummer and educator.

Biography

Hart was born in Washington, D.C., where early on in his career he performed with Otis Redding and Sam and Dave and then with Buck Hill and Shirley Horn. He was a sideman with the Montgomery Brothers (1961), Jimmy Smith (1964–1966), and Wes Montgomery (1966–68). Following Montgomery's death in 1968, Hart moved to New York City, where he recorded with McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, and Joe Zawinul and played with Eddie Harris, Pharoah Sanders, and Marian McPartland.[1]

Hart was a member of Herbie Hancock's sextet (1969–73) and played with McCoy Tyner (1973–74), Stan Getz (1974–77), and Quest (1980s), in addition to freelance playing (including recording with Miles Davis on 1972's On the Corner).[1]

Since the early 1990s, Hart has been associated with Oberlin Conservatory of Music,[2] and is also adjunct faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music[3] and Western Michigan University.[4] He also conducts private lessons through the New School and New York University. The drummer often contributes to the Stokes Forest Music Camp and the Dworp Summer Jazz Clinic in Belgium.[5]

He has led a group with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street, is featured in a trio led by pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, another led by guitarist Assaf Kehati, and has performed in a band known as the Cookers, with Eddie Henderson, David Weiss, Craig Handy, George Cables and Cecil McBee, all who have toured extensively and recorded two CDs.[6]

Hart resides in Montclair, New Jersey, where he has a music studio described by JazzTimes as his "inner sanctum".[7][8]

Discography

Billy Hart (right), Johnny Alegre (center), and bassist Ron McClure (left), recording Johnny Alegre 3 in New York City

Billy Hart at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California

As leader

Enchance (Horizon, 1977)
The Trio with Walter Bishop Jr. & George Mraz (Progressive, 1982)
Oshumare (Gramavision, 1984)
Rah (Gramavision, 1988)
Amethyst(Arabesque, 1993)
Oceans of Time (Arabesque, 1997)
Billy Hart Quartet (HighNote, 2006)
Route F (Enja, 2006)
Live at the Cafe Damberd (Enja, 2009)
Sixty-Eight (SteepleChase, 2011)
All Our Reasons (ECM, 2012)
One Is the Other (ECM, 2014)

As sideman

Dates indicate the year of the album's release. If the recording was issued more than a year later, the recording date is followed by the release date in brackets. "With" marks collaborative recordings as band and with the musicians equal credit for the album. Otherwise the Leader/line-up column is sorted by the musician's first name. Musicians and labels are only linked on first appearance.

Date	Leader/line-up	Album	Label
1961 [1980]	Wes Montgomery	Live at Jorgies Jazz Club	VGM
1961, 1968 [?]	Wes Montgomery	Live at Jorgies Jazz Club and More	VGM
1963	Buck Clarke	The Buck Clarke Sound	Argo
1964	Jimmy Smith	Christmas Cookin'	Verve
1965	Jimmy Smith	The Amazing Jimmy Smith Trio Live at the Village Gate	Metro
1965	Jimmy Smith	Live in Concert – The Incredible Jimmy Smith	Metro
1965	Jimmy Smith	La métamorphose des cloportes (O.S.T.)	Verve
1968	Eddie Harris	Pourquoi l'Amérique (O.S.T.)	AZ
1968	Eddie Harris	Silver Cycles	Atlantic
1968	Paul Jeffrey Quintet	Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet	Savoy
1969	Eddie Harris	High Voltage	Atlantic
1969	Eddie Harris	Free Speech	Atlantic
1969	Melvin Jackson	Funky Skull	Limelight
1969	Pharoah Sanders	Karma	Impulse!
1969 [1973]	Pharoah Sanders	Izipho Zam (My Gifts)	Strata-East
1970	Marian McPartland	Ambiance	Halcyon
1970 [1974]	McCoy Tyner	Asante	Blue Note
1971	Herbie Hancock	Mwandishi	Warner Bros.
1971	Harold Land	A New Shade of Blue	Mainstream
1971	Wayne Shorter	Odyssey of Iska	Blue Note
1971	Joe Zawinul	Zawinul	Atlantic
1972	Norman Connors	Dance of Magic	Cobblestone
1972	Miles Davis	On the Corner	Columbia
1972 [1974]	Miles Davis	Big Fun (material from On the Corner sessions)	Columbia
1972	Hal Galper	Wild Bird	Mainstream
1972	Herbie Hancock	Crossings	Warner Bros.
1972	James Mtume with the Mtume Umoja Ensemble	Alkebu-Lan – Land of the Blacks (Live at The East)[9]	Strata-East
1972	Pharoah Sanders	Black Unity	Impulse!
1972	Buddy Terry	Pure Dynamite	Mainstream
1972	Pete Yellin	Dance of Allegra	Mainstream
1973	Catalyst	Perception	Muse
1973	Charles Earland	The Dynamite Brothers (O.S.T.)	Prestige
1973	Herbie Hancock	Sextant	Columbia
1973	Eddie Henderson	Realization	Capricorn
1973	Marc Levin Ensemble	Songs Dances and Prayers[10]	Sweet Dragon
1974 [1976]	Walter Bishop Jr.	Valley Land	Muse
1974	Catalyst	Unity	Muse
1974	Carlos Garnett	Black Love	Muse
1974	Eddie Henderson	Inside Out	Capricorn
1974	Azar Lawrence	Bridge into the New Age	Prestige
1974	Bennie Maupin	The Jewel in the Lotus	ECM
1974	Cecil McBee	Mutima	Strata-East
1974 [1977]	James Mtume	Rebirth Cycle	Third Street
1974	Hannibal Marvin Peterson and The Sunrise Orchestra	Children of the Fire	Sunrise
1974	Charles Sullivan	Genesis	Strata-East
1974	McCoy Tyner	Sama Layuca	Milestone
1975	Kenny Barron	Lucifer	Muse
1975	Joseph Bonner	Triangle	Whynot
1975	Joanne Brackeen	Snooze	Choice
1975	Sonny Fortune	Awakening	Horizon
1975	Stan Getz	Jazz Jamboree 74, Vol. 2	Muza
1975	Stan Getz with João Gilberto	The Best of Two Worlds	Columbia
1975 [1982]	Stan Getz	The Master	Columbia
1975	Eddie Henderson	Sunburst	Blue Note
1975	Bob Moses	Bittersuite in the Ozone	Mozown
1975	Michel Sardaby	Gail
1975	Harold Vick	Don't Look Back	Strata-East
1975	Buster Williams	Pinnacle	Muse
1975	Stan Getz (one track, a.o.)	Standard School Broadcast "Music Makers": Woodwinds & Reeds	Chevron
1976 [1978]	Joanne Brackeen	Invitation	Freedom
1976	Hal Galper	Reach Out!	SteepleChase
1976 [2016]	Stan Getz with João Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto '76	Resonance
1976	Eddie Henderson	Heritage	Blue Note
1976	Pat Martino	Exit	Muse
1976	Charles Sullivan	Re-Entry	Whynot
1976	Buster Williams	Crystal Reflections	Muse
1977	Black Renaissance	Body, Mind and Spirit[11]	Baystate
1977 [1979]	Richard Davis	Harvest	Muse
1977	Stan Getz	Live at Montmartre	SteepleChase
1977	Stan Getz	Another World	Columbia
1977	Stan Getz	Mort d'un pourri (O.S.T.)	Melba
1977	Herbie Hancock	V.S.O.P.	Columbia
1977	Eddie Jefferson	The Main Man	Inner City
1977	Andy LaVerne	Another World	SteepleChase
1977	John Spider Martin	Absolutely	Improv
1977	Dave McKenna, The Wilbur Little Quartet	Oil & Vinegar	Honeydew
1977	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Trio 1	SteepleChase
1977	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Trio 2	SteepleChase
1977	Doug Raney	Introducing Doug Raney	SteepleChase
1977	Zbigniew Seifert	Man of the Light	MPS
1977	John Stowell	Golden Delicious	Inner City
1978	Pepper Adams	Reflectory	Muse
1978	Kenny Barron	Innocence	Wolf
1978	Walter Bishop Jr.	Cubicle	Muse
1978 [1982]	with Walter Bishop, Jr. and George Mraz	The Trio	Progressive
1978	Hamiet Bluiett	Resolution	Black Saint
1978	Joanne Brackeen	Tring-a-Ling	Choice
1978	Arnett Cobb	Arnett Cobb Is Back	Progressive
1978	Albert Dailey	That Old Feeling	SteepleChase
1978	Billy Harper	Soran-Bushi, B.H.	Denon
1978	Buck Hill	This Is Buck Hill	SteepleChase
1978	Shirley Horn	A Lazy Afternoon	SteepleChase
1978	Jimmy Knepper with Joe Temperley	Just Friends	Hep
1978	Hannibal Marvin Peterson	Naima	Eastworld
1978	Doug Raney	Cuttin' Loose	SteepleChase
1978	Bobby Watson as Robert Watson	Estimated Time of Arrival	Roulette
1979	Chico Freeman	Spirit Sensitive	India Navigation
1979	Mack Goldsbury	Anthropo-Logic	Muse
1979	Dick Griffin	Now Is the Time	Trident
1979	Glen Hall	The Book of the Heart	Sonora
1979	Buck Hill	Scope	SteepleChase
1979 [1982]	Duke Jordan	Thinking of You	SteepleChase
1979	Lee Konitz	Yes, Yes, Nonet	SteepleChase
1979 [1984]	Lee Konitz	Live at Laren	Soul Note
1979	Jim McNeely	The Plot Thickens	Gatemouth
1979	John McNeil Quintet	Faun	SteepleChase
1979	John McNeil & Tom Harrell	Look to the Sky	SteepleChase
1979	Cam Newton	The Motive Behind the Smile	Inner City
1979	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Quartet	Dancing on the Tables	SteepleChase
1979	Doug Raney with Jimmy Raney	Stolen Moments	SteepleChase
1979	Jimmy Rowles	Paws That Refresh	Choice
1979	John Scofield	Who's Who?	Arista
1979	Louis Smith Quintet	Prancin'	SteepleChase
1979	with Clark Terry, Johnny Hartman, Oscar Peterson, Victor Sproles and Chris Woods	Ain't Misbehavin'	Pablo
1979	Buster Williams	Heartbeat	Muse
1980	Pierre Dørge Quartet	Ballad Round the Left Corner	SteepleChase
1980	Teddy Edwards	Out of This World	SteepleChase
1980	Chico Freeman	Peaceful Heart, Gentle Spirit	Contemporary
1980	Duke Jordan	Change a Pace	SteepleChase
1980	Mingus Dynasty	Live at Montreux	Atlantic
1980	Doug Raney	Listen	SteepleChase
1980	Mickey Tucker	The Crawl	Muse
1980	Tom Varner	Tom Varner Quartet	Soul Note
1980	Buster Williams	Dreams Come True	Buddah
1981	Pepper Adams	Urban Dreams	Palo Alto
1981	Franco Ambrosetti	Heartbop	Enja
1981	Hamiet Bluiett	Dangerously Suite	Soul Note
1981 [1983]	Buck Hill	Impressions	SteepleChase
1981	Terumasa Hino	Double Rainbow	CBS/Sony
1981	Joachim Kühn	Nightline New York	Sandra Music
1981	Mingus Dynasty	Live at Montreux	Atlantic
1981	Dave Schnitter	Glowing	Muse
1982	Johnny Coles	New Morning	Criss Cross Jazz
1982	Art Farmer Quartet	A Work of Art	Concord Jazz
1982	Chico Freeman	Tradition in Transition	Elektra Musician
1982	Stan Getz	Pure Getz	Concord Jazz
1982 [1995]	Stan Getz	Blue Skies	Concord Jazz
1982	Buck Hill	Easy to Love	SteepleChase
1982	Jay Hoggard	Mystic Winds, Tropic Breezes	India Navigation
1982 [1986]	Jimmy Knepper	1st Place	BlackHawk
1982	Arnie Lawrence	Renewal	Palo Alto
1982	Cecil McBee	Flying Out	India Navigation
1983 [1991]	with Stanley Cowell, Billy Harper and Reggie Workman	Such Great Friends	Strata-East
1983	Chico Freeman	The Search	India Navigation
1983	James Newton	James Newton	Gramavision
1983	The Jazztet	Nostalgia	Baystate
1983	Tom Varner	Motion/Stillness	Soul Note
1984	Larry Coryell	Comin' Home	Muse
1984	Chico Freeman feat. Bobby McFerrin	Tangents	Elektra Musician
1984	Kip Hanranhan	Conjure – Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed	American Clavé
1984	Jimmy Knepper	I Dream Too Much	Soul Note
1984	James Newton	Luella	Gramavision
1985 [1988]	Pepper Adams	The Adams Effect	Uptown
1985	Paul Bley	My Standard	SteepleChase
1985	Larry Coryell	Equipoise	Muse
1985	Johnny Dyani Quartet	Angolian Cry	SteepleChase
1985 [1988]	Duke Jordan	Time on My Hands	SteeplChase
1985 [1989]	Duke Jordan	As Time Goes By	SteepleChase
1985	Didier Lockwood	Out of the Blue	Gramavision
1985	James Newton	The African Flower – The Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn	Blue Note
1985	Big Nick Nicholas	Big Nick	India Navigation
1985	Doug Raney	Guitar Guitar Guitar	SteepleChase
1985	Idrees Sulieman	Groovin'	SteepleChase
1986	Miles Davis	Tutu	Warner Bros.
1986 [1991]	Shirley Horn Trio	Violets for Your Furs	SteepleChase
1987	with Tal Farlow, John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, John Scofield and John Patitucci	All Strings Attached	Verve
1987	Khan Jamal	Thinking of You	Storyville
1987	Ralph Moore	623 C Street	Criss Cross Jazz
1987	with Quest	II	Storyville
1987	with Quest	Midpoint – Quest III Live at the Montmartre Copenhagen Denmark	Storyville
1988	Gary Bartz Quartet	Monsoon	SteepleChase
1988	John Handy	Excursion in Blue	Quartet
1988	Tom Harrell	Stories (1991 reissue as Visions)	Contemporary
1988	Duke Jordan Trio	Time on My Hands	SteepleChase
1988	Mingus Dynasty	Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1	Soul Note
1988	Mingus Dynasty	Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2	Soul Note
1988	with Quest	N.Y. Nites – Standards	PAN Music
1988	with Quest	Natural Selection	Pathfinder/Core
1988	Doug Raney	Something's Up	SteepleChase
1989	Paul Bley Trio	The Nearness of You	SteepleChase
1989	with Klaus Ignatzek and Ron McClure	Take It Easy	Nuovo
1989	Judy Niemack	Long as You're Living	Freelance
1990	Joey DeFrancesco	Where Were You?	Columbia
1990	Lars Møller Quartet	Pyramid	Stunt
1990	with Quest	Of One Mind	CMP
1991	Joanne Brackeen	Is It Really True	Konnex
1991	Shirley Horn	You Won't Forget Me	Verve
1991	James Newton/David Murray	David Murray/James Newton Quintet	DIW
1992	Sonny Fortune	It Ain't What It Was	Konnex
1992	with the Western Jazz Quartet (Trent Kynaston, Steve Zegree and Tom Knific)	Firebird
1992	Jarmo Savolainen	First Sight	Timeless
1993	with Santi Debriano and Arthur Blythe	3–Ology	Konnex
1993	Charles Lloyd	The Call	ECM
1993	Warren Vaché	Horn of Plenty	Muse
1994	with Jerry Bergonzi, Mike Stern, Andy LaVerne and George Mraz	Vertical Reality	Musidisc
1994	George Cables	Quiet Fire	SteepleChase
1994	Stanley Cowell	Setup	SteepleChase
1994	Sonny Fortune	Four in One	Blue Note
1994	Dick Griffin	The Eighth Wonder & More	Konnex
1994	with David Liebman and Cecil McBee	The Seasons	Soul Note
1994	Charles Lloyd	All My Relations	ECM
1994	Joe Lovano	Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard	Blue Note
1994	Judy Niemack	Night and the Music	Freelance
1994	Grover Washington, Jr.	All My Tomorrows	Columbia
1995	Sonny Fortune	A Better Understanding	Blue Note
1995	Shirley Horn	The Main Ingredient	Verve
1995	Cæcilie Norby	Cæcilie Norby	Blue Note
1995	Jarmo Savolainen	True Image	A-Records
1996	George Cables	Dark Side, Light Side	SteepleChase
1996	Ray Drummond	Vignettes	Arabesque
1996	Jon Jang Sextet	Two Flowers on a Stem	Soul Note
1996	Lee Konitz	It's You	SteepleChase
1996	Charles Lloyd	Canto	ECM
1996	Chris Potter	Moving In
1997	Nick Brignola	Poinciana	Reservoir
1997 [1999]	Ray Drummond	1-2-3-4	Arabesque
1997	Horace Tapscott	Thoughts of Dar es Salaam	Arabesque
1998	Dave Douglas	Moving Portrait	DIW
1999	Kenny Barron	Spirit Song	Verve
1999	with Doug Raney and Joey DeFrancesco	The Backbeat	SteepleChase
2001	Pat Martino	Live at Yoshi's	Blue Note
2002	Charles Lloyd	Lift Every Voice	ECM
2002 [2005]	Frank Morgan	Raising the Standard	HighNote
2003 [2007]	Frank Morgan	A Night in the Life	HighNote
2004	Frank Morgan	City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard	HighNote
2005	with Mark O'Leary and Tomasz Stanko	Levitation	Leo
2006	Frank Morgan	Reflections
2007	with David Liebman, Richie Beirach and Ron McClure	Redemption	hatOLOGY
2007	with Quest	Re-Dial (Live in Hamburg)	Outnote
2010	Jean-Michel Pilc	True Story	Disques Dreyfus
2011	Brian Landrus	Traverse
2011	with Quest	Circular Dreaming	Enja
2011	Iñaki Sandoval	Miracielos
2011	Tied & Tickled Trio	La Place Demon	Morr
2012	Karlheinz Miklin and Heiri Känzig	Cymbal Symbols	TCB Music
2012	Odean Pope	Odean's Three	In+Out
2014	Tisziji Munoz	Heart Trance Revelation	Anami
2014	Yelena Eckemoff feat. Mark Turner, Joe Locke & George Mraz	A Touch of Radiance	L & H
2014	with Bobby Hutcherson, David Sanborn, Joey DeFrancesco	Enjoy the View	Blue Note
2015	Yelena Eckemoff feat. Arild Andersen	Lions	L & H
2015	John Raymond, Dan Tepfer, Joe Martin	Foreign Territory[12]	Fresh Sound
2016	Yelena Eckemoff feat. Mark Feldman & Ben Street	Leaving Everything Behind	L & H
2016	Marcos Varela	San Ygnacio	Origin

References

Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (Fifth ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140514520.
"Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty page". Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
"New England Conservatory of Music faculty page". New England Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
Wood, William. "Master jazz drummer Billy Hart returns to Western Michigan University drum choir". Kalamazoo Gazette. MLive Media Group. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
https://www.billyhartmusic.com/about
Micallef, Ken (15 May 2017). "With Experience on their Side, The Cookers Heat Up Dizzy's". DownBeat. DownBeat. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
"The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats", The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Billy Hart -- A versatile, inventive drummer, Hart lives in Montclair."
Seidel, Mitchell. "Billy Hart", JazzTimes, April 25, 2019. Accessed January 11, 2021. "The inner sanctum of Billy Hart’s Montclair, N.J. home is a basement music studio that serves as a combination listening room, recreation room and classroom for visiting music students.... Billy Hart’s home looks like most others off Montclair’s main street of Bloomfield Avenue, a multistory, circa-1920s wood-frame structure with a small front yard and a narrow driveway on the side, except for the exterior color scheme of lavender and purple, which seems to scream 'alternative lifestyle' and makes the house leap out from the rest of the block."
Alkebu-Lan – Land of the Blacks at Discogs (list of releases)
Songs Dances and Prayers at Discogs (list of releases)
Body, Mind and Spirit at Discogs (list of releases)
Chinen, Nate (5 May 2015). "Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2015.

External links

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[Penguin_Guide-1] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (Fifth ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140514520.

[2] "Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty page". Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[3] "New England Conservatory of Music faculty page". New England Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[4] Wood, William. "Master jazz drummer Billy Hart returns to Western Michigan University drum choir". Kalamazoo Gazette. MLive Media Group. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[5] ttps://www.billyhartmusic.com/about

[6] Micallef, Ken (15 May 2017). "With Experience on their Side, The Cookers Heat Up Dizzy's". DownBeat. DownBeat. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[7] "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats", The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Billy Hart -- A versatile, inventive drummer, Hart lives in Montclair."

[8] Seidel, Mitchell. "Billy Hart", JazzTimes, April 25, 2019. Accessed January 11, 2021. "The inner sanctum of Billy Hart’s Montclair, N.J. home is a basement music studio that serves as a combination listening room, recreation room and classroom for visiting music students.... Billy Hart’s home looks like most others off Montclair’s main street of Bloomfield Avenue, a multistory, circa-1920s wood-frame structure with a small front yard and a narrow driveway on the side, except for the exterior color scheme of lavender and purple, which seems to scream 'alternative lifestyle' and makes the house leap out from the rest of the block."

[9] Alkebu-Lan – Land of the Blacks at Discogs (list of releases)

[10] Songs Dances and Prayers at Discogs (list of releases)

[11] Body, Mind and Spirit at Discogs (list of releases)

[12] Chinen, Nate (5 May 2015). "Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2015.