Bill Stewart, born William Harris Stewart on October 18, 1966, in Des Moines,
Iowa, United States, is an American jazz drummer. Raised listening to his
parents' jazz and rhythm and blues records, Stewart began playing drums at age
7. He attended the University of Northern Iowa before transferring to William
Paterson University, studying under Eliot Zigmund and Horacee Arnold and meeting
future collaborator Joe Lovano. Stewart made his first recordings in 1990
alongside Scott Kreitzer, Armen Donelian, and Franck Amsallem, subsequently
moving to New York City to join John Scofield'...