Walter Davis Jr.
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American pianist
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- Bachelors Music Howard University
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Why Is Walter Davis Jr. Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Davis Jr. was an American bebop and hard bop pianist. Davis once left the music world to be a tailor, but returned. A soloist, bandleader, and accompanist, he amassed a body of work while never becoming a high-profile name even within the jazz community. Davis played with Babs Gonzales' Three Bips & a Bop as a teen, then moved from Richmond to New York in the early 1950s. He played with Max Roach and Charlie Parker, recording with Roach in 1953.
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