Weasel Walter

Christopher " Weasel " Walter ( born May 18, 1972 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American fusion and jazz musician (drums, guitar), composer and bandleader.

Life and work

" Weasel " Walter first began to play with eleven years of punk rock as guitarist and then played bass in a heavy metal band before he dealt with free jazz. In 1990 he moved to Chicago, where he studied music, including the venue Southend Musicworks occurred and bassist Anthony Braxton's Workshop Orchestra was. First, he formed a collective improvisation with Josh Berman and William Pisarri, but had the stock on a concert; from the fall of 1991, he worked with his teacher Hal Russell and formed with it the formation of The Flying Luttenbachers ( Walter until 2007 headed ). In 1995 he graduated with a Bachelor in Composition from.

In the following years he worked in the American alternative rock, jazz, noise and improvisation scene, including with Marc Edwards, Peter Evans, Vinny Golia, Mary Halvorson, John Lindberg, Mario Rechtern and Damon Smith. In 2000 he presented the album Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi, in which Jim O'Rourke and Fred Lonberg -Holm participated. With Lonberg -Holm and Kevin Drumm he published in 2003 eruption (coarse ).