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| Walter Savage (2009) | |
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| Walter Savage is a bassist, pianist and singer who has had a love affair with jazz and the Bay Area for many years. It's only two years ago that he moved to Arkansas (but he can say "Fayetteville" like a native), and he makes it a point to return every summer for music and memories.
Walter grew up in Watts, and when playing gigs - be it at Yoshi's, or Enrico's or The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society - the bandstand always lights up for anyone lucky enough to be within earshot. His father was a preacher, and the church influence was strong: Walter says that he can't remember not singing ("Everyone in my family loved to sing", he says.) Stationed throughout the Pacific during the 1960s, a friend showed him a few bass chords, and that's when he know that this just might be his instrument. Early on, he took some lessons down in the LA area with Al McKibbon and Leroy Vinegar. 40 years later, he says he's still finding new things to do with the instrument. Walter has two albums under his own name, "Soothes the Savage Beast" and "Autumn's Witch", the latter featuring his own writing. Has a knack with a melody, and is a good teacher himself (some of McKibbon and Vinnegar must have rubbed off). |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | June Christy | Something Cool | Something Cool | Capitol |
| # 2 | Oscar Peterson featuring Niels Henning Ørsted Pederson | Nigerian Marketplace | Nigerian Marketplace | (Pablo) |
| # 3 | Booker Little | Booker Little 4 Plus Max Roach | Sweet and Lovely | (Blue Note) |
| # 4 | Ray Charles | Standards | Ruby | (Rhino) |
| # 5 | Lambert, Hendricks and Ross | Everybody's Bopping | Soul Food | (Columbia) |
| # 6 | Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2 | Hi Fly | (Blue Note) |
| # 7 | Cannonball Adderley | The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse | Big P | (Landmark) |
| # 8 | Nat Cole | After Midnight | It's Only a Paper Moon | (Capitol) |
| Book | Doug Ramsey, "Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond" | |||
| Luxury Item | A piano | |||
| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |