Billy Hart Has One Foot in Jazz’s Past and the Other in Its Future

Billy Hart Has One Foot in Jazz’s Past and the Other in Its Future

Onstage at Smoke in late January, the all-star septet the Cookers were surging into high gear. The catalyst: their drummer, Billy Hart, who stirred up rhythmic eddies and punched out stinging cymbal accents while fixing the saxophonist Azar Lawrence with an eager, heat-of-battle grin. On “Just,” a new album by …

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