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Bill Elgart or Billy Elgart (born November 9, 1942,
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) is an
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American
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drummer. He is related to
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and Larry Elgart. Elgart was born in
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. He studied at the
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and was a student of
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. In the 1960s he played with
Carla Bley Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she gained acclaim for her jazz opera ''Escalator ...
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and
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, Germany. He has played with
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, Ed Schuller, and Wayne Darling over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. He was a member of the group Zollsound 4 with Carlo Mombelli,
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, and Thomas Zoller. He played in the Sundial Trio with Peter O'Mara from 1982 to 1990. In 1991 he worked with Caoma alongside Ed Schuller, Sigi Finkel, and Tomasz Stanko. Stanko and Elgart also played with Vlatko Kucan in the 1990s. Elgart worked on the Annemarie Roelofs Projekt, alongside Berger, Frank Möbus, Vitold Rek, and Ingrid Sertso. He has worked as a sideman on recordings by Leszek Zadlo, Manfred Bründl,
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, Carlo Mombelli,
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, and worked with
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, David Friedman and Matthias Schubert.


Discography


As leader

* ''A Life'' (Mark Levinson, 1976) * ''Jazz at Long Wharf'' (Mark Levinson, 1978) * ''Sun Dial'' (Rst, 1985) * ''Iliad'' (Rst, 1986) * ''O'Mara/Darling/Elgart'' (Core, 1988)


As sideman

With
Paul Bley Paul Bley, Order of Canada, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live per ...
* '' Mr. Joy'' (Limelight, 1968) * '' Paul Bley with Gary Peacock'' (ECM, 1970) * '' Turning Point'' (Improvising Artists, 1975) With Claudio Fasoli * ''Cities'' (RAM 1993) * ''Ten Tributes'' (RAM 1995) * ''Trois Trios'' (Splasc(H), 1999) With others * Franco D'Andrea, ''Franco D'Andrea Trio'' (YVP Music 1989) *
Karl Berger Karl Hans Berger (March 30, 1935 – April 9, 2023) was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator. He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life. He founde ...
, ''No Man Is an Island'' (Douglas Music, 1997) *
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, ''Plaything'' ( NoBusiness, 2014) * Wolfgang Lackerschmid, ''One More Life'' (Bhakti, 1992) * Guenter Lenz, ''Strict Minimum'' (Jazzwerkstatt, 2007) *
Charlie Mariano Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophone, saxophonist who focused on the alto saxophone, alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well. Biogra ...
, ''Somewhere, out there'' (New Edition, 2013) *
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, ''Martin Mull'' (Capricorn, 1972) *
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, ''Polar Bear Stomp'' (EmArcy, 2003) * Tomasz Stanko, ''Caoma'' (Konnex, 1993) * Sadao Watanabe, ''Sadao & Charlie Again'' (JVC, 2006) * Eric Watson, ''The Fool School'' (AA, 1993) *
Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, Order of Canada, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he w ...
, '' Flutter By, Butterfly'' (Soul Note, 1987) * Leszek Zadlo, ''Breath'' (Enja, 1989)


References

* Bill Elgartat
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