Cedar Walton

Fabulous bebop

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 4/1/2002

Pianist Cedar Walton was one of many promising Bud Powell-inspired pianists working in New York when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1961. He had already made a name for himself as a member of two of the finest units of the time — J. J. Johnson's Quintet and the Jazztet — but the three years that he spent with one of the best editions of Blakey's

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