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 | First Line
Bob Stewart
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Track Listing
1. First Line
2. C.J.
3. Metamorphosis
4. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
5. Nonet
6. Hey Mama
7. Bush Baby
8. Surinam
9. Hambone Detailed Description / Musicians
Musicians:
Bob Stewart - Tuba
Stanton Davis - Trumpet
Steve Turre - Trombone
Kelvyn Bell - Guitar
Idris Muhammad - Drums
Arto Tuncboyaciyan - Percussion
Description:
Tuba virtuoso Bob Stewart had appeared on countless albums, always providing a solid and, more importantly, creative underpinning to diverse bands, so it wasn't a big surprise that his first album as a leader turned out so wonderfully. He fronts a sextet with an all brass front line that coasts and struts its way through some playful originals, well-chosen traditionals, and a couple of pieces from ex-employer Arthur Blythe's repertoire. His tuba fluctuates effortlessly from its role as bass substitute to lead instrument, the latter forming a creamy, layered sound with trombonist Steve Turre and trumpeter Stanton Davis. Stewart's solo rendition of "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a classic, using overtones to inject enormous amounts of feeling into the song and leading into his gorgeous "Nonet," a piece that sounds like it could have sprung from a neglected Music Inc. session. The rhythm section purrs along quite well, Kelvyn Bell supplying some fine color under Turre's shell solo on "Surinam" and the percussionists fine throughout. By the time Stewart's "Hambone" closes the disc with its theme oddly reminiscent of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman," the listener has enjoyed a bright, juicy set, rambunctious and alive, heavy on the bottom and rolling on top.
--Brian Olewnick
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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