Bob Stewart

Biography

Bob Stewart (born February 3, 1945) is an American jazz tuba player and music teacher.

Early life and education

Stewart was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and a Master of Education from Lehman College.

Career

Stewart taught music in Pennsylvania public schools and at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York City. He is now a professor at the Juilliard School and is a distinguished lecturer at Lehman College.
Stewart has toured and recorded with such artists as Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Murray, Taj Mahal, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Haden, Lester Bowie, Bill Frisell, Globe Unity Orchestra and many others in the United States, Europe, and Eastern Asia.
He was a frequent collaborator with saxophonist Arthur Blythe from the 1970s into the early 2000s, often taking the place of the string bass that traditionally supports a jazz ensemble. In their review of Blythe's album Lenox Avenue Breakdown, the editors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called Stewart's title track solo "one of the few genuinely important tuba statements in jazz."

As leader

1987: First Line (JMT)
1988: Goin' Home (JMT)
2000: Then & Now (Postcards) with Taj Majal, Carlos Ward, Steve Turre, and Graham Haynes
2008: Heavy Metal Duo: Work Songs and Other Spirituals

As sideman

With Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora and Francisco Mora Catlett's AfroHORN

Jazz: A Music of the Spirit (Amedian, 2019)
With Ray Anderson

It Just So Happens (Enja, 1987)
With Arthur Blythe

Metamorphosis (1977)
The Grip (1977)
Bush Baby (1978)
Lenox Avenue Breakdown (Columbia, 1979)
Illusions (1980)
Blythe Spirit (1981)
Elaborations (1982)
Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk (1983)
Hipmotism (Enja, 1991)
Night Song (Clarity, 1997)
Spirits in the Field (Savant, 2000)
Focus (Savant, 2002)
Exhale (Savant, 2003)
With Henry Butler

The Village (1987, Impulse!)
With Uri Caine

The Sidewalks of New York: Tin Pan Alley (Winter & Winter, 1999)
The Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 2000)
With Don Cherry

Multikuti (A&M, 1990)
With Gil Evans

There Comes a Time (RCA, 1975)
Priestess (Antilles, 1977 [1983])
Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (RCA, 1979)
With Bill Frisell

Rambler
With Dizzy Gillespie and Machito

Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (Pablo, 1975)
With Howard Johnson and Gravity

Gravity!!! (Verve, 1996)
Right Now! (Verve, 1997)
Testimony (Tuscarora, 2017)
With Chris Joris

Songs For Mbizo (VKH Tonesetters, 1991 and Jazz Halo/Omnitone, 2002) – with 1976 recordings
With David Murray

Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (Black Saint, 1984)
Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (Black Saint, 1984)
David Murray Big Band (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
With Charles Mingus

Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia, 1972)
Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)
With Sam Rivers

Crystals (Impulse!, 1974)
Inspiration (BMG France, 1999)
Culmination (BMG France, 1999)
With Herb Robertson

Shades of Bud Powell (JMT, 1988)