Walter Davis Jr.

piano · 1932–1990 · Richmond (Virginie)

Bebop and hard bop pianist who worked in the groups of Charlie Parker, Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie, then in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. An interpreter of Bud Powell's music, he also wrote compositions that gave their titles to several Messengers albums.

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Styles

• Hard bop
• Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's)

Landmark tracks

• Sweetness (1959)
• Loodle-Lot (1959)
• Minor Mind (1959)

Sources

• Source

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