Piano Jazz's 30th-anniversary celebration continues as pianist Cedar Walton, a guest on the show's first season in 1979, returns to the program with guest host Bill Charlap. Walton's resume includes ...

Lewis Nash is gathering long-time bandmates of the great Cedar Walton for a special two-show engagement December 11 at 7:00 pm and 9:15 pm at The Nash. Pianist/composer Cedar Walton created one of the ...

Cedar Walton's contemporaries were and are some of the greatest, most innovative jazz musicians in that music's history. Walton, a pianist who moved to New York City in the mid-1950s, walked the ...

Cedar Walton has been one of the big names in jazz piano, having started near the beginning of the second wave of the jazz era, after swing and big band gave way to bebop and a new emphasis on star ...

Cedar Walton, a National Endowment for the Arts "jazz master" known as "one of the great hard bop pianists," died early Monday at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to WBGO's The Checkout. He was ...

Cedar Walton, a powerful hard-bop pianist who appeared on more than 400 recordings and combined a meaty, rhythmic playing style with sensitive, delicate solos, died August 19. He was 79. [Photo of ...

Bad news arrived last week while I was out of town—the death of the pianist and composer Cedar Walton, at the age of seventy-nine. His name has always been a watermark of quality, and of particular ...

The veteran New Yorker is on top piano-playing form on this strong standards set. Walton re-visits three of his own, including the title track, as well as “Over the Rainbow”, Stevie Wonder’s “Another ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When people complained in recent months about the way that London’s leading jazz club seemed to have cried off jazz, ...

Cedar Walton, one of jazz's foremost pianists and composers, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 79. Admired for the crisp elegance, subtlety and swing of his playing and arranging, Mr.

I just refused to rule anybody out with any style that was on the bandstand. Cedar Walton cut his chops with several great groups, including J.J. Johnson's Quintet and the Jazztet, before making a ...

Born in Dallas, Texas, on January 17 1934, Cedar Anthony Walton had his first piano lessons from his mother, herself a classically trained pianist. She also took him to local concerts by jazz pianists ...