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Encyclopedia > Walter Davis, Jr.

Walter Davis, Jr. (1932–1990) was an American hard bop pianist. As a teenager he performed with Babs Gonzalez, then in the 1950s recorded with Max Roach and played with Roach, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, and the Jazz Messengers. After retiring from music in the 1960s he returned in the 1970s to perform with Sonny Rollins and again with the Jazz Messengers. He has recorded with many prominent jazz musicians, including, in addition to Byrd, Roach, Rollins, and the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Clarke, Sonny Criss, Jackie McLean, Pierre Michelot, and Archie Shepp.


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Mapleshade Artists - Walter Davis, Jr. (492 words)
Within months, Walter was a regular at the historic Harlem and 52nd Street jam sessions that formed the roots of modern jazz.
Walter spent the early sixties with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, returning a decade later, in 1975, as the group’s principal composer-arranger.
Walter, who did so much for others, particularly young musicians, could not have been more negligent of his own health.
Walter Davis, Jr. at AllExperts (366 words)
Davis was known as a prime interpretor of the music of Bud Powell but also recorded an album capturing the compositional genius and piano style of Thelonious Monk.
Although few of Davis' recordings as a pianist remain in print, he is likely to be periodically rediscovered and long remembered for his strikingly original, adventurous and challenging compositions, several of which served as titles for noteworthy albums by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Davis died in New York on June 2, 1990 from complications of liver and kidney disease.
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