Hey Rodney-there are so many MILLIONS of us that love & revere your dad as a true master in the highest echelon with all the absolute greatest of the great…his genius will live on and continue to inspire forever-love to the great CEDAR WALTON!
Congratulations man that's awesome. Could you elaborate on how that date went and how it related to hearing Cedar Walton? That'd be a seriously cool story to hear about.
What a lineup! Every recording by each of these instrumentalists--not just Walton--is worth chasing down. All stars in their own right, and in '63 at the top of their game. Art Blakey hasn't got the attention he deserves for running his post-bop/hard-bop academy for so so long. Thanks to him, more than most, to many of us it turned out to be The Golden Age of jazz.
What I appreciate about Cedar Walton is that he is a master of bebop phrasing (0:56-1:00, for example), understands the art of sequence, and has a bluesy sound that informs his approach to bebop/bop and improvisational sequence.
This is so swingin'! I love that Art is right there just tippin' and RW is so funky with those off beat rhythms all in the right places. And of course CW is so elegant and smooth but that sweet fire!
One of my favorite piano solos of all time (Cedar has bebop, the blues, and the art of sequence under his fingers). I saw you play, by the way, Vincent, several years ago in Mt. Pleasant, MI with Billy Hart on drums. You were fantastic.
