Billy Hart
drums

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 :
Buck Hill, Shirley Horn, the Montgomery Brothers (1961), Jimmy Smith (1964-1966), and Wes Montgomery (1966-1968), Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Eddie Harris, Pharoah Sanders, Marian McPartland, Herbie Hancock's sextet (1969-1973), McCoy Tyner (1973-1974), Stan Getz (1974-1977), Miles Davis on 1972's “On the Corner”...
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.
His current group is a quartet with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street. An album of this band came out in August 2006 on the High Note label.