Bob Stewart (tuba)
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Bob Stewart in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
. is a freelance concert artist, educator, and studio musician. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts
and his Masters in Education from Lehman College
Graduate School. Stewart taught music in Pennsylvania public schools and at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
in New York City
. He is now a professor at the Juilliard School
and is a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Lehman College
.
Stewart has toured and recorded with such artists as Charles Mingus
, Gil Evans
, Carla Bley
, David Murray
, Taj Mahal
, Dizzy Gillespie
, McCoy Tyner
, Arthur Blythe
, Freddie Hubbard
, Don Cherry
, Nicholas Payton
, Wynton Marsalis
, Charlie Haden
, Lester Bowie
and many others both in the United States, Europe
and the Far East
. In their review of Blythe's album Lenox Avenue Breakdown
, the editors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz
called Stewart's title track solo "one of the few genuinely important tuba statements in jazz."
With Charles Mingus
With Henry Butler
South Dakota
South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
. is a freelance concert artist, educator, and studio musician. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts
University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
The University of the Arts is one of the United States' oldest universities dedicated to the arts. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia...
and his Masters in Education from Lehman College
Lehman College
Lehman College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, USA. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within the City University in 1968. The college is named after Herbert Lehman, a former New York governor,...
Graduate School. Stewart taught music in Pennsylvania public schools and at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He is now a professor at the Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
and is a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Lehman College
Lehman College
Lehman College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, USA. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within the City University in 1968. The college is named after Herbert Lehman, a former New York governor,...
.
Stewart has toured and recorded with such artists as Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans
Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
, Carla Bley
Carla Bley
Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
, David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)
David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
, Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
, McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...
, Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.- Biography :...
, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
, Don Cherry
Don Cherry (jazz)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
, Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Biography:The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father...
, Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
, Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...
, Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
and many others both in the United States, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the Far East
Far East
The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...
. In their review of Blythe's album Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Lenox Avenue Breakdown is an album by jazz alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe. Columbia Records released the album in 1979, and Koch Jazz re-issued the title in 1998...
, the editors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States...
called Stewart's title track solo "one of the few genuinely important tuba statements in jazz."
As leader
- 1987: First Line
- 1988: Goin' Home
- 2000: Then & Now (Postcards RecordsPostcards RecordsPostcards Records was an American jazz record label active during the 1990s, an imprint of Arkadia Jazz.-Discography:...
) with Taj MajalTaj Mahal (musician)Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
, Carlos WardCarlos WardCarlos Ward is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He is best known as a sideman.His first instrument was the clarinet at age 13 when he lived in Seattle, Washington...
, Steve TurreSteve TurreSteve Turre is a trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist....
, and Graham HaynesGraham HaynesGraham Haynes is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer, the son of jazz drummer Roy Haynes.... - 2008: Heavy Metal Duo: Work Songs and Other Spirituals
As sideman
With Arthur BlytheArthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.- Biography :...
- MetamorphosisMetamorphosisMetamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
(1977) - The GripThe Grip-Track listing:# "The Grip" - 7:15# "Spirits in the Field" - 8:36# "Sunrise Service" - 7:54# "Lower Nile" - 4:02# "As of Yet" - 12:37# "My Son Ra" - 3:22*Recorded at the Brook in New York City on February 26, 1977.-Personnel:...
(1977) - Bush BabyBush Baby (album)-Track listing:# "Mamie Lee" - 10:32# "For Fats" - 8:43# "Off The Top" - 8:20# "Bush Baby" - 9:07*Recorded at Blank Tapes Recording Studio in New York City in December 1977.-Personnel:*Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone*Ahkmed Abdullah - congas*Bob Stewart - tuba...
(1978) - Lenox Avenue BreakdownLenox Avenue BreakdownLenox Avenue Breakdown is an album by jazz alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe. Columbia Records released the album in 1979, and Koch Jazz re-issued the title in 1998...
(1979) - IllusionsIllusions (Arthur Blythe album)-Track listing:# "Bush Baby" - 6:28# "Miss Nancy" - 7:24# "Illusions" - 4:10# "My Son Ra" - 5:59# "Carespin' With Mamie" - 7:04# "As of Yet" - 5:04*Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York in April & May 1980.-Personnel:*Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone...
(1980) - Blythe SpiritBlythe Spirit-Track listing:# "Contemplation" - 6:54 # "Faceless Woman" - 6:41# "Reverence" - 6:25# "Strike up the Band" - 2:44 # "Misty" - 7:24# "Spirits in the Field" - 3:29...
(1981) - ElaborationsElaborations-Track listing:# "Elaborations" - 7:23 # "Metamorphosis" - 6:18 # "Sister Daisy" - 7:17 # "One Mint Julep" - 4:54 # "Shadows" - 4:25 # "Lower Nile" - 10:37*Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York-Personnel:...
(1982) - Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious MonkLight Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk-Track listing:# "We See" - 6:30# "Light Blue" - 5:12# "Off Minor" - 6:48# "Epistrophy" - 8:38# "Coming On the Hudson" - 6:05# "Nutty" - 6:45*Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York-Personnel:*Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone*Abdul Wadud - cello...
(1983)
With Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
- Charles Mingus and Friends in ConcertCharles Mingus and Friends in ConcertCharles Mingus and Friends in Concert is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded at the Philharmonic hall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1972 and released on the Columbia label...
(Columbia, 1972)
With Henry Butler
Henry Butler
Henry Butler is an American jazz pianist.He is known for his technique and his ability to play in many styles of music. Referred to by Dr...
- The Village (1987, Impulse!Impulse! RecordsImpulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...
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