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Cedar Walton's Piano Solo on "Happy Time" Live @ Village Vanguard 1982 | bernie's bootlegs

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Cedar Walton's stunning piano solo on the song "Happy Time". Recorded live with the Freddie Hubbard Quartet at the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1982. 

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Cedar Walton - piano
Ron Carter - bass
Lenny White - drums

Full concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vadp2goNrlw

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Cedar Walton (Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr.), (born Jan. 17, 1934, Dallas, Texas—died Aug. 19, 2013, Brooklyn, N.Y.), American jazz musician who was a master of late bop piano, which he played with grace, energy, and melodic ingenuity. After completing his U.S. Army service in the late 1950s, Walton became a favourite among New York’s hard-bop musicians, performing and recording as a sideman with a parade of important artists, including the Jazztet, J.J. Johnson, and John Coltrane. As a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1961–64), Walton composed such well-known songs as “Mosaic” and “Ugetsu” and was a fluent soloist in both modal and chord-change-based works. At the height of the hard-bop idiom, he recorded more than 70 albums with Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Ornette Coleman, and other major figures, accompanied singer Abbey Lincoln, and played in the cooperative quartet Eastern Rebellion. Walton also began recording under his own name; Cedar! (1967) was the first of about 60 albums for which he was lead musician. In 2010 the National Endowment for the Arts named Walton a jazz master.

Freddie Hubbard (Frederick Dewayne Hubbard), (born April 7, 1938, Indianapolis, Ind.—died Dec. 29, 2008, Sherman Oaks, Calif.), American jazz musician who played bravura trumpet solos with a harmonic-rhythmic flair that made him the most exciting late-bop virtuoso on his instrument. Early in his career, while influenced by bop-era trumpeters (including Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan), Hubbard developed a big, commanding tone and a subtle style of inventing melodies that flowed and, alternately, burst into dramatic contrasts. A prolific and daring recording artist, he not only was a major hard-bop figure but also played free jazz with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy and modal jazz with Wayne Shorter. After performing (1961–64) in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Hubbard led combos, including 1970s jazz-rock fusion groups that recorded the popular albumsRed Clay and First Light (Grammy Award, 1972). He also played (1976–79) with Shorter and Herbie Hancock in the all-star quintet V.S.O.P. and on sound tracks for films, including Blowup. Years of intense trumpeting led to a lip infection in 1992 that severely curtailed Hubbard’s career. In later years he played the less-demanding flugelhorn, rather than the trumpet, accompanied by the New Jazz Composers Octet.

A versatile drummer, Lenny White is still best-known for being part of Chick Corea's Return To Forever in the 1970's. White was self-taught on drums and he largely started his career on top, playing regularly with Jackie McLean (1968) and recording "Bitches Brew" with Miles Davis in 1969.

White was soon working with some of the who's who of jazz including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Gato Barbieri, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke and Stan Getz among others. As a member of Return To Forever during 1973-76, White gained a strong reputation as one of the top fusion drummers, but he was always versatile enough to play in many settings.

After the breakup of RTF, Lenny White headed several fusion projects but none of the recordings (for Nemperor and Elektra) have dated well at all, emphasizing commercial funk. However his work with the Echoes Of An Era and Griffith Park all-star groups were been more successful and he has been a valuable sideman for a wide variety of projects.











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