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 ...

Pianist Cedar Walton has long been the perfect accompanist for so many other leaders. He's written quite a few of jazz's few "standards" over the last half century as well. For four decades now, he's ...

Cedar Walton's latest release, Latin Tinge, is a middle-of-the-road assemblage of tunes in a trio setting. Walton, an accomplished and masterful pianist, is joined by bassist Cucho Martinez and ...

A savvy veteran of jazz's hard-bop heyday, pianist Cedar Walton has always been in high demand. When he arrived in New York, musicians like Art Blakey and John Coltrane employed him on canonic ...

The standout line on Cedar Walton’s resume covers his years with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers–1961 to ’64 and again in the early 70s–during which he added some marvelous pages to the Messengers book ( ...

There aren’t many many musicians still alive who were active during the golden era of hard bop, but pianist Cedar Walton is one of them. Though he doesn’t loom as large in the history of the music as, ...

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 pianist and composer who worked with almost every major jazz performer of his era, from John Coltrane to Art Blakey to Abbey Lincoln, and who was honored as a National Endowment for ...

It's become a summer tradition at Jazz at Lincoln Center: Rather than changing bands every week at Dizzy's, August is given over to two double-week bookings. Pianist Cedar Walton traditionally opens ...

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.

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 ...