William "Billy" Hart (born November 29, 1940) is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

Early on he performed in Washington, D.C. with Buck Hill and Shirley Horn, and was a sideman with the Montgomery Brothers (1961), Jimmy Smith (1964-1966), and Wes Montgomery (1966-1968). Following Montgomery’s death in 1968, Hart moved to New York, where he recorded with McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, and Joe Zawinul, and played with Eddie Harris, Pharoah Sanders, and Marian McPartland. Shirley Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. ... A young Jimmy Smith, on the 1958 album House Party Jimmy Smith, or The Incredible Jimmy Smith, (December 8, 1925 – February 8, 2005) was a jazz musician whose instrument was the Hammond B-3 electric organ. ... John Leslie Wes Montgomery was an African-American jazz guitarist. ... McCoy Tyner Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938), commonly known as McCoy Tyner, is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet. ... Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter in the 1960s quintet Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. ... Josef Erich Zawinul (born July 7, 1932 in Vienna, Austria) is a jazz keyboardist and composer. ... Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934–November 5, 1996), was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. ... Reggie Workman, Pharoah Sanders, and Idris Muhammad, c. ... Marian McPartland, born Margaret Marian Turner on March 21, 1918 in England near Slough, Buckinghamshire, is a British jazz pianist. ...

Hart was a member of Herbie Hancock's sextet (1969-1973), and played with McCoy Tyner (1973-1974) and Stan Getz (1974-1977), in addition to extensive freelance playing (including recording with Miles Davis on 1972's On the Corner). Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz musics most important and influential pianists and composers. ... McCoy Tyner Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938), commonly known as McCoy Tyner, is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet. ... Stan Getz Stanley Getz, better known as Stan Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz musician. ... Davis 1959 album Kind of Blue, likely the best-selling jazz album ever. ... On the Corner is an album recorded in June and September 1972 by Miles Davis. ...

Currently Billy Hart is one of the most in-demand jazz drummers and teachers alive. By the end of the 1990s, Hart has recorded on more than 400 albums.

External links

• Billy Hart at the All Music Guide