Cedar Walton

By Ken Micallef, eMusic Contributor

Cedar Walton is one of the last great jazz pianists of the hard bop era. His compositions have been recorded by many masters of jazz — past and present — often with Walton providing his lustrous, clear-as-cut-glass piano style. Moving to New York in the late 1950s, Walton's articulate, sublimely melodic piano playing and intellectually stimulating compositions found their way onto the bandstands and recordings of the top hard boppers of that fevered age. Walton worked… more »