Walt Dickerson

Walter Roland „Walt“ Dickerson (* 16. April 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 15. Mai 2008) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Vibraphonist des Modern Jazz (Hard Bop, Post Bop).

Dickerson studied at Morgan State University and after graduation in 1953 and a two-year military service to California, where he directed a band with Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille. At the beginning of the 1960s he became interested in the New York jazz scene with the albums This is Walt Dickerson (1961), A Sense of Direction (1961) and Relativity (1962). This year, he won the Best New Star Poll of Downbeat magazine for his (to Richard Cook and Brian Morton) probably best album To My Queen, on which Andrew Hill, George Tucker and Andrew Cyrille participated. Cyrille remained his drummer until he switched to Cecil Taylor's band. He worked under his own name and with John Coltrane and Sun Ra, who worked as a sideman on the piano in Impressions of a Patch of Blue (1965). In 1964 he moved to Copenhagen, where he worked as a teacher and did not perform for ten years. From the mid-1970s onwards, there followed recordings with the Jazzlabel Steeplechase, among others. Duos with Sun Ra ("Visions", 1978), the Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge, and Richard Davis ("Divine Gemini", 1977). Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): LCCN: n95094605 VIAF: 17407208 | Wikipedia People Search | No GND person record. Last review: 17 January 2017.

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