Art Lillard’s On Time Trio
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Swing, Jazz, and Pop
A professional drummer since 1970, Art Lillard has had a rich performing career, leading and co-leading jazz ensembles and playing as a sideman in jazz, country & western, cabaret, rock, and show music groups.
He has recorded with the swing/blues band Groovalaya (“Groovalaya ’92”), vocalist Cleve Douglass (“Duke Ellington Boulevard”), and flutist Jan Leder (“Passage to Freedom” on Monad Records and “Nonchalant” on A-Records).
He performed at the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival in 1983 with the Amy Duncan Trio at the Blue Note; at Finland’s Pori Jazz Festival in 1993 with the New York All-Stars; and at the Hunter Mountain Festival with country & western group Slicker in 1993, ’94, and ’95. During the 1990s, he also played at the Hudson Riverfest in Yonkers with his Heavenly Big Band, the Dixieland band the 9th Street Stompers, and several times with the Jan Leder Quartet.
Art’s ensembles include the Heavenly Big Band, the Blue Heaven swing sextet, the On Time trio/quartet, and the Art Lillard Duo. He has produced eight professional recordings with these bands.