Artist: Walter Booker

Walter Booker was an American jazz bassist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques. 

Booker moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in the mid-1940s. He played  clarinet and alto sax in college with a concert band. In 1959 he began on bass while in the US Army while serving in the same unit as Elvis Presley. He worked with Andrew White in Washington after his discharge, playing in the JFK Quintet during the early 1960s. 

In 1964 Booker moved to New York City and was hired by Donald Byrd. he later recorded and toured with Ray Bryant, Betty Carter, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. He joined the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969, starting an association which lasted until Adderley's death in 1975. He then toured the United States with the Shirley Horn Trio, along with Billy Hart on drums.

Booker designed, built, and ran the Boogie Woogie Studio in NYC, a mecca for musicians from all over the world, and through the 1980s, he played and recorded with Nat Adderley, Nick Brignola, Arnett Cobb, Richie Cole, John Hicks, Billy Higgins, Clifford Jordan, Pharoah Sanders, Sarah Vaughan, and Phil Woods. 

Booker was married to the pianist Bertha Hope, with whom he played in a trio that included drummer Jimmy Cobb.

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