Bill Elgart
William Spencer Elgart ( Billy Elgart; born November 9, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer. He is distinguished by his melodic drumming.
Life and work
Elgart studied at the Berklee College of Music and was a student of Alan Dawson. In the 1960s he played among others with Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Marion Brown, Sam Rivers, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Jack Walrath and Glenn Ferris. In 1966 he made his recording debut with Paul Bley Mr. Joy and Gary Peacock.
In 1976 he came with Tom van der Geld to Europe and settled in Salzburg. As a member of van der money belt Children At Play, he worked on their albums Patience (1977 ) and Out Patients (1980 ) with. He also worked with musicians such as Erich Kleinschuster, Allan Praskin, Jürgen Seefeld and Peter Michael Hamel.
1986 moved to Ulm Elgart. He was a theater musician at the Munich Chamber games and taught since 1990 percussion at the University of Music Würzburg. In the early 1980s he founded with Peter O'Mara and Wayne Darling, the trio SunDial, with whom he recorded four albums until 1990. 1991 Elgart was a member of the band Camoa Sigi Finkel. With Tomasz Stanko, he worked in a quartet led by Vlatko Kucan.
He appeared as a sideman on recordings by Marion Brown, Leszek Zadlo, Manfred Bruendl, Kenny Wheeler, Carlo Mombelli, Charlie Mariano, Arrigo Cappelletti, Franco D' Andrea, Wolfgang Lackerschmidt, Claudio Fasoli, Sigi Finkel and Paolino Dalla Porta and tour projects by Tim Berne, Barre Phillips, Eddie Gomez, Conny Bauer, Sheila Jordan, David Friedman and Matthias Schubert. With Eric Watson and John Lindberg he took in 1992, the trio album The Fool on School. He regularly works with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso and 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
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Volume 1 Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0.