Walt Dickerson

Roland Walter " Walt " Dickerson (* April 16, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † 15 May 2008) was a jazz vibraphonist of Modern Jazz ( Hard Bop, Post Bop ).

Dickerson graduated from Morgan State University and went to the conclusion in 1953, and two years of military service to California, where he led a band with Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille. He attracted attention in the early 1960s 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 the magazine Down Beat for its ( by Richard Cook and Brian Morton ) is probably the best album To My Queen, on the Andrew Hill, George Tucker and Andrew Cyrille participated. Cyrille was to be a drummer until he joined the band of Cecil Taylor. He worked under his own name and with John Coltrane and Sun Ra, who worked as a sideman on piano in Impressions of a Patch of Blue ( 1965). In 1964, he moved to Copenhagen, where he worked as a teacher and for ten years did not occur. From the mid- 1970s, then recordings followed the jazz label Steeplechase, including Duets with Sun Ra ( "Visions", 1978), the Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge and Richard Davis ( "Divine Gemini", 1977).