Walter Benton

Walter Benton ( born September 9, 1930 in Los Angeles, † 14 August 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist of the hard bop. He played with Max Roach and Kenny Clarke.

Life and work

Walter Benton played at the beginning of his career from 1950 to 1953 in various military orchestras and from 1954 to 1957 with Perez Prado; He then worked as a freelance musician in Los Angeles, where he worked with Max Roach and Clifford Brown, and in November with Kenny Clarke on his Savoy session Album Telefunken Blues grossed in 1954. In 1957 he was Man of the production Go West! involved by Quincy Jones. 1958/59 he played with Victor Feldman. In 1959 he founded his own formation, in September 1960 created recordings under his own name with Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Albert " Tootie " Heath ( Out of This World) for the label " Jazzland ". It also Benton's compositions Walter's age, A Blues Mood, Azil and Iris were taken. In the same year Benton was involved in Max Roach's " Freedom Now Suite " at the session of the "Jazz Artists Guild " and Julian Priest album Out of This World. 1961 Benton had yet to shoot with Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach and Eric Dolphy for the Candid label ( " Straight Ahead ") and by Slide Hampton. He then returned to Los Angeles, played with Gerald Wilson and 1966 with John Anderson; from the time then no further recordings.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Clifford Brown: Brownie ( Emarcy, 1954-56 )
• Eric Dolphy: Candid Dolphy ( Candid, 1960 /61)
• Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead ( Candid, 1960)
• Julian Priester: Out of This World ( Milestone Records, 1960)
• Max Roach: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite ( Candid, 1960)

Swell

• Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia; Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1993
• Bielefeld Catalog Jazz, 2001
• Richard Cook and Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.