Bob Stewart (tuba)

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Bob Stewart is an American jazz tubist. He was born in 1945 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He 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. Former faculty of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, he has been involved with public education for over twenty years and also teaches privately. He is now a professor 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, Lester Bowie 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."