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Walter Bishop, Jr.
American jazz pianist
New York City, United States • 1927-10-04 – 1998-01-24
Walter Bishop, Jr. is credited on 1,053 releases across 256 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,053
Pressings credited
256
Albums
8
Decades active
208
In collections
Credited work
1,053 releases · 256 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 1,385
- Other credits · 8
- Production · 1
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Birdland · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Turicop Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Birth Of The Cool
1957
Art Pepper + Eleven (Modern Jazz Classics)
1960
Legrand Jazz
1958
Dig
1956
Tetragon
1968
Coral Keys
1971
Collectors' Items
1956
Rollins Plays For Bird
1956
Bird With Strings (Live At The Apollo, Carnegie Hall & Birdland)
1977
The Black Angel
1970
Conception
1956
Walkin', Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', Steamin'
2010
Bird - The Original Recordings Of Charlie Parker
1988
The Verve Years (1950-51)
1976
Keeper Of My Soul
1973
"Bird" Is Free
1961
Capuchin Swing
1960
Mobley's 2nd Message
1957
The Brothers
1956
The Happy "Bird"
Black Jazz Records: The Complete Singles
2023
The Essential Miles Davis
2001
The Verve Years (1952-54)
1977
Inta Somethin'
1962
Frequent collaborators
- Charlie Parker
- Miles Davis
- Various
- Blue Mitchell
- Art Blakey
- Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
- Kenny Dorham
- Sonny Stitt
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