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Backgrounder: Walter Davis Jr. - 'Davis Cup' (1959)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Walter Davis Jr. was an exceptional hard bop pianist and composer. He was commanding and percussive, similar in this regard to Horace Silver. As a leader, Davis made a bunch of terrific albums for Blue Note, and one of his best was his first—Davis Cup. The album was recorded on August 2, 1959. The reason I include the date here is because Davis Cup was the first full album to be recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's newly constructed studio in ...
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Walter Davis Jr.: Davis Cup
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
On August 2, 1959, Rudy Van Gelder opened his newly built Englewood Cliffs, N.J., recording studio. Between 1952 and August 1959, Rudy had been recording jazz albums for Blue Note and other labels in a soundproof room at his parents modernist white stucco home a few miles away in Hackensack. The first album recorded in Hackensack was the 10-inch Gil Melle Quintet/Sextet for Blue Note. The room Rudy used is featured widely in many of Francis Wolff's photos with the ...
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