albums

Click the LP/CD covers to access feature profiles for a selection of the albums Bill Elgart has appeared on between 1968 and 2018.

Sebastian Gille – Achim Kaufmann – Matthias Akeo Nowak – Bill Elgart – Common Ground (2018) CD, Download & Streaming Jazzwerkstatt with Gille on tenor saxophone, Kaufmann on piano, Nowak on double bass, and Elgart on drums

Baars – Kneer – Elgart’s Live At Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2012, (2018) CD & Download Evil Rabbit Records with Ab Baars on tenor saxophone, clarinet, and shakuhachi, Meinrad Kneer on double bass, and Bill Elgart on drums

Christian Hassenstein Trio’s Cause & Consequence (2017) CD & Download DJAMtones with Bill Elgart on drums, Hassenstein on guitars, and Sven Schuster on bass

Krisch – Höfler – Elgart feat. Lauren Newton’s Lonely Woman (2016) CD & Download JazzHausMusik with Bill Elgart on drums, Karoline Höfler on bass, Dizzy Krisch on vibraphone, and Lauren Newton on vocals

Gianni Lenoci – Kent Carter – Bill Elgart’s Plaything (2014) LP & Download NoBusiness Records/Silta Records with Carter on bass, Elgart on drums, and Lenoci on piano

Baars – Kneer – Elgart’s Give No Quarter (2013) CD & Download Evil Rabbit Records with Ab Baars on tenor saxophone, clarinet, and shakuhachi, Meinrad Kneer on double bass, and Bill Elgart on drums

Geoff Goodman’s Jazz + Haiku (2011) CD & Download Double Moon Records with Bill Elgart on drums, Goodman on guitar, Kiyomi recitation, Till Martin on saxophone and clarinet, Henning Sieverts on bass, and Fjoralba Turku on vocals

Klare – Platz -Kneer – Elgart’s Modern Primitive (2011) CD & Download Evil Rabbit Records with Bill Elgart on drums, Jan Klare on alto saxophone, clarinet, and flute, Meinrad Kneer on double bass, and Jeff Platz on guitar

Hans-Peter Salentin – Michael Wollny – Stephan Schmolck – Bill Elgart’s Beyond Our Thoughts (2007) CD & Download YVP Music with Salentin on trumpet and fluegelhorn, Wollny on Steinway piano, Schmolck on bass and electronic effects, and Bill Elgart on drums

Sadao Watanabe’s Sadao & Charlie Again (2006) CD & Download Victor with Bob Degen on piano, Bill Elgart on drums, Dieter Ilg on double bass, Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone, and Sadao Watanabe on alto saxophone

Jim Pepper Trio’s Polar Bear Stomp (2003) CD EmArcy/Universal Music with Wayne Darling on bass, Bill Elgart on drums, and Jim Pepper on saxophone, vocals, and percussion

Charlie Mariano’s Not Quite a Ballad (2003) CD & Download Intuition Records with Bill Elgart on drums, Rudi Engel on double bass, Mariano on saxophone, Bernhard Pichl on piano, and the Würzburg Philharmonic

Wayne Darling’s The Art Of The Bass, Vol. 1 (2002) CD & Download Laika Records with Darling on bass, Árni Egilsson on bass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass, Fritz Pauer on piano, and Billy Elgart on drums

Peter Fulda Trio’s The Nightmind (2002) CD & Download JAZZ ’n’ ARTS RECORDS with Bill Elgart on drums, Fulda on piano, and Henning Sieverts on bass

Alison Welles and Geoff Goodman’s Songs of Charles Ives and Other American Songs (2001) CD Musikverlag H. Burger & M. Müller with Bill Elgart on drums, Goodman on guitar and electric mandolin, Henning Sieverts on bass, and Welles on vocals

Claudio Fasoli – Mick Goodrick – Paolino Dalla Porta – Bill Elgart’s Cities (1993) CD RAM Records with Elgart on drums, Fasoli on saxophone, Goodrick on guitar, and Dalla Porta on double bass

Donald Johnston’s There’s No Forgetting You (1993) CD & Download Bhakti Records with Wolfgang Lackerschmid on vibes, Bill Elgart and Steve Little on drums, Rocky Knauer and Bill Crow on bass, and Johnston on piano

Kenny Wheeler – Peter O’Mara – Wayne Darling – Bill Elgart’s Kenny Wheeler – Peter O’Mara – Wayne Darling – Bill Elgart (1991) LP & CD Koala Records with Darling on bass, Elgart on drums, O’Mara on guitar, and Wheeler on flugelhorn & trumpet

Roland Heinz Quartet’s Heavy Mental (1991) CD with Bill Elgart on drums, Heinz on guitar and guitar synthesizer, Barre Phillips on bass, and Leszek Żadło on tenor and soprano saxophones and flute

Carlo Mombelli and Charlie Mariano’s Happy Sad (1990) CD & Download ITM Pacific with Mariano on alto saxophone and flutes, Mombelli on bass and voice, Peter O’Mara on guitar, and Bill Elgart on drums

Franco D’Andrea Trio’s Franco D’Andrea Trio (1989) LP, CD & Download YVP Music with D’Andrea on piano, Bill Elgart on drums and Stephan Schertler on bass–reissued as Chromatic Phrygian in 1996

Kenny Wheeler Quintet’s Flutter By, Butterfly (1988) LP, CD & Download Soul Note with Billy Elgart on drums, Dave Holland on bass, Stan Sulzman on soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone & flute, John Taylor on piano, and Wheeler on flugelhorn & cornet

Tom van der Geld and Children At Play’s Out Patients (1980) LP Japo Records with Wayne Darling on bass, Bill Elgart on drums and percussion, Roger Jannotta on tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, oboe, flute, and  whistle, and Tom van der Geld on vibraphone

Paul Bley’s Mr. Joy (1968) LP Limelight/Mercury with Bley on piano, Bill Elgart on drums, and Gary Peacock on bass