WALTER NORRIS

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American jazz pianist and composer.

Born: December 27, 1931 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Died: October 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

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Walter Norris was a brilliant pianist, a virtuoso whose improvisations could be both very complex harmonically yet often remain melodic. He would have been better known in the U.S. if he had not spent so much time in Germany. Norris worked with Howard Williams in Arkansas (1944-1950) as a teenager, was in Houston with Jimmy Ford (1952-1953), led his own trio in Las Vegas (1953-1954), and then settled in Los Angeles. He was on quite a few sessions during the latter half of the 1950s, most notably with Jack Sheldon, Frank Rosolino, and Herb Geller, in addition to Ornette Coleman's first record (1958); he did his best to fit into the latter setting, but (other than Paul Bley at the Hillcrest Club) it was the last time for decades that Coleman
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WALTER NORRIS Drifting (with George Mraz) album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Drifting (with George Mraz)
Post Bop 1974
WALTER NORRIS Winter Rose (with Aladar Pege) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Winter Rose (with Aladar Pege)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1980
WALTER NORRIS Walter Norris Trio : A Child is Born album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walter Norris Trio : A Child is Born
Post Bop 1981
WALTER NORRIS Stepping On Cracks album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stepping On Cracks
Post Bop 1982
WALTER NORRIS Walter Norris, RIAS Tanzorchester & Hans-Georg Arlt Strings : Instrumentals - Accent On Piano album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walter Norris, RIAS Tanzorchester & Hans-Georg Arlt Strings : Instrumentals - Accent On Piano
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1986
WALTER NORRIS Lush Life album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lush Life
Post Bop 1991
WALTER NORRIS Sunburst album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sunburst
Post Bop 1991
WALTER NORRIS Love Every Moment album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Love Every Moment
Post Bop 1993
WALTER NORRIS Hues Of Blues album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Hues Of Blues
Post Bop 1995
WALTER NORRIS From Another Star album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
From Another Star
Post Bop 1998
WALTER NORRIS Elements in Motion (with Putter Smith) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Elements in Motion (with Putter Smith)
Post Bop 2009

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WALTER NORRIS Synchronicity (with Aladar Pege) album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Synchronicity (with Aladar Pege)
Post Bop 1979
WALTER NORRIS Live At Maybeck Recital Hall - Volume Four album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At Maybeck Recital Hall - Volume Four
Post Bop 1990
WALTER NORRIS The Last Set - Live At The A-Train (with Leszek Mozdzer) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Last Set - Live At The A-Train (with Leszek Mozdzer)
Post Bop 2012

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WALTER NORRIS Walter Norris & George Mraz, Aladar Pege : Drifting album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walter Norris & George Mraz, Aladar Pege : Drifting
Post Bop 1991

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