Rob Lockart

Robert Lockart received a BM in music theory with a performers certificate and MM from Eastman School in Jazz Studies, as well as attending the Banff School with Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, and David Liebman. As a performer he has played with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Tom Harrell Big Band, Doc Severinsen Big Band, Joe LaBarbera Quintet, Kurt Elling, in addition to single performances with Dave Liebman, Mel Lewis, Hank Jones, Clark Terry, and as a soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include Dave Liebman, Al Regni, Micheal Nascimben, Joe Allard, Ramon Ricker, and Mardele Marcellus. In Los Angeles Rob is active as a recording musician in the jazz community and TV and film

Little Did I Dream

By Susan Krebs

Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Just Don't Know What To Do; Little Did I Dream; The Very Thought Of You; I Remember You; My Buddy; You Bother Me; Azure; Not To Worry.

I Just Don't Know What To Do

September 23, 2025

Album: Little Did I Dream
By Susan Krebs
Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:59

Ode To Joe

By David Whitman

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Time Out; Bop This; Home; Ode to Joe; Ness Please; With Love.

David Whitman: Ode To Joe

by Jack Bowers
October 10, 2023

While West Coast drummer David Whitman's Ode to Joe [Henderson] is a rather brief one at less than thirty-three minutes, it is otherwise admirable for what is enclosed within its concise parameters. Whitman leads a well-schooled septet whose makeup is freshened by rotating tenor saxophonists Bob Sheppard and Rob Lockart and guitarists Bruce Forman and Chris ...

Convergency

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Convergency; Uncommonly Ground; Duelity; A Gathering Circle; A Curve in the Road; Inner Voices; Sometimes a Notion; Vanishing Point; And Now the News; I Had the Craziest Dream.

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

by Jack Bowers
August 22, 2022

While big-band albums generally differ, sometimes widely, in tone and temperament, there are definitive criteria by which every one may be evaluated--arrangements, performers, sound quality, sequencing and, above all, the elusive but imperative swing quotient. Dave Slonaker checks all those boxes and more on Convergency, a superlative successor to his excellent Grammy-nominated debut album, Intrada, released ...

Convergency

July 19, 2022

Album: Convergency
By Dave Slonaker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:10

The BBB Featuring Bernie Dresel: The Pugilist

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2022

No, drummer Bernie Dresel hasn't taken a day gig at the Los Angeles-area Better Business Bureau; the BBB in front of his name stands for Bernie's Big Band or Bernin' Big Band or Bernie's Bernin' Band or something like that. It's really hard to say, as the band's full name isn't spelled out anywhere, even on ...

Daybreak

By Susan Krebs

Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Can'T Get Out Of This Mood; Daybreak; How Little We Know; Inside A Silent Tear; Who Knows Where The Time Goes; Listen Here; Stardust