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JD WALTER Quartet with Grammy® winner Dave Kikoski on piano, Diego Joaquin Ramirez on drums, and UWSP's very own David Story on bass.
Mr. Walter has become a pioneer of improvisation and electronic innovations in the world of jazz. His recording career spans 20 years and his purist progressive approach to jazz music has been recognized worldwide.
“A splendid sense of suspense and swagger.”
After extended studies in Amsterdam, Walter returned to the U.S. and embedded himself in the New York Jazz scene. It was in New York, surrounded by visionaries of jazz, where he began to organically develop his liberated, vibrant style that turned him from straight-ahead to progressive jazz singing.
“Walter is reshaping what jazz singing is all about. He is an original in an art overpopulated with copycats.”
“He scats like nobody else. He plays with long tones like Betty Carter, takes risks like Kurt Elling, possesses a velvety smoothness like Mel Torme, and croons with the confident serenity of a Nat Cole.”
JD's latest album, testifies to his personal progression as an evolving artisan and provides an intimate, inventive collection of standards and originals. “Dressed in a Song,” produced by Walter and Grammy-winning producer and A&R executive Al Pryor, features piano and vocal duets and trios with veterans and up-and-comers alike.
“Lithe and audacious.”
Over the decades, Walter has performed at numerous jazz clubs and festivals in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Central America as well as over 80 tours in Russia. He remains a regular in the New York music scene, and has headlined at Dizzy’s Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard, The Jazz Gallery, and The Blue Note.