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Bob Stewart

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Track Listing
1. Hambone
2. Big Kneed Gal
3. King Porter Stomp
4. You Don't Know What Love Is
5. Rambler
6. Fishin' Blues
7. Nette
8. Tunk
9. Law Years
10. Bunian Stomp

Detailed Description / Musicians
Musicians:
Bob Stewart - Tuba
Dave Burrell - Piano
John Clark - French Horn
Stanton Davis - Trumpet
Fred Griffen - French Horn
Jerome Harris - Guitar
Graham Haynes - Cornet, Trumpet
Taj Mahal - Guitar, Vocals
Aaron Scott - Drums
Marshall Sealy - French Horn
Steve Turre - Trombone
Carlos Ward - Alto Saxophone
Buddy Williams - Drums
Jamers Zollar - Trumpet

Description:
Tuba player Bob Stewart's CD came out about the same time as Howard Johnson's Gravity release, and Stewart suffers by comparison. Bluesman Taj Mahal contributed the much too talky "Big Kneed Gal" and very tedious "Fishin' Blues." Carlos Ward's "Nubian Stomp" is at best uninspired reggae, while his street strut "Nette" barely gains headway in spite of trumpeter Graham Haynes' spirited solo. Stewart's originals and handling of standards fare much better. Both "funk" and "Hambone" get his group cooking. Jelly Roll Morton's "King Porter Stomp" gets a refreshing update, including the addition of a French horn. But it is the slowly savored arrangement of "You Don't Know What Love Is," featuring Stewart with pianist Dave Burrell, that takes top honors.

--Ken Dryden
All Music Guide


  Available Items by Bob Stewart About Bob Stewart 

Website: http://www.bobstewartuba.com

Bob Stewart is a freelance concert artist, educator, and studio musician. Mr. Stewart has received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and his Masters in Education at Lehman College Graduate School. He also teaches privately and has been involved with public education for over twenty years. He is now teaching at the Juilliard School and is a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Lehman College.

Bob 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 and many others both in the United States, Europe and the Far East. "The Tuba, as you know, was phased out of most ensembles around 1923 with the introduction of the "walking" upright bass. Since then it has only been in the last 20 years that composers and arrangers have begun hearing the instrument. As a result, there are more instances in which the Tuba appears in ensemble work."

Bob Stewart is bridging the gap between 1923 and the present by bringing the Tuba back into the modern ensemble as the bass in the rhythm section and as a horn available for melodic lines and soloing.

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