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My Blue Note Obsession
Walter Davis Jr.: Davis Cup - 1959
by Marc Davis
Every now and then, I hear a musician in a band and I think, Damn, can we get rid of the other guys and just hear this one by himself?" That was my immediate thought after listening to Davis Cup, a hard bop cooker from 1959. Walter Davis Jr. is a pianist with a slim discography. He recorded exactly one Blue Note CD as a leader--this one, his debut--and appeared mostly as a sideman on other people's records. ...
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