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Bill Elgart or Billy Elgart (born November 9, 1942, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an expatriate American jazz drummer. He is related to Les and Larry Elgart.
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Elgart was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He studied at the Berklee College of Music and was a student of Alan Dawson. In 1968 he made his recording debut on Mr. Joy, with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock.
He moved to Europe in 1976, settling first in Salzburg, Austria and later in Ulm, Germany. He played in the groups Zollsound 4, Sundial Trio, Caoma, and the Annemarie Roelofs Projekt.
From 2001 he has been professor for Jazz Percussion at the University of Music Würzburg. [1]
