While Elvin Jones and Tony Williams might be more noted names, Billy Hart is still a drummer for the ages, with over 500 appearances on record and a list of credits that includes Shirley Horn and Wes ...

It's the "most important classical music festival in New York City," according to the New York Times. Yet the programmers for the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn also have big ears. Woven between Long ...

As a drummer, composer and educator, Billy Hart has participated in the history of jazz from behind the kit as largely an unsung hero. If so, then no longer — Hart was recently accorded the form's ...

The idea of balance is synonymous with the leading melodic voice in the group, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner (see also my Album of the Year for 2019, link below). His focused sound, his capacity to ...

It was announced eight months ago, but Billy Hart’s National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship still baffles him. “All of my heroes are jazz masters. It’s hard to see myself as one of ...

Billy Hart Quartet One of the art form's greatest drummers and bandleaders, Billy Hart is an imaginative artist whose innovations on drum language of the 1960s placed him amongst modernists Jack ...

Billy Hart Quartet, featuring celebrated drummer Billy Hart, will perform at Birdland from August 16 to 18, 2024. Hart, known for his innovative contributions to jazz, previously collaborated with ...

Billy Hart is a drummer and composer who has played with Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, and many others. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2022. The legendary jazz ...